On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Sébastien Santoro dereckson@espace-win.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Actually when I talked to freenode staff, there were quite interested in this. They don't have so many servers and wikimedia is well known project with established technical infrastructure. Even if they needed root, they could use puppet to set up the system to their needs and there are many folks around, who would be happy to help them do that.
If there were some technical resources we could offer them, it's definitely worth of asking. Being a donor of servers means, wikimedia project would be listed together with our logo on their donor page as a top donor and that would improve the overall look of our project which is heavily using their network.
You still have to demonstrate how the technical community will deal with a 3 months 25 to 75 Mbps DDoS attack targetted to IRC facilities.
While I am not speaking for server hardening, our network can handle an extra 75 Mbps without a problem.
However, this is a moot point.... if the community decides we want to talk, we in Operations can talk with freenode operations people and see what is safely mutually possible.
Leslie
It's the kind of attack waves who made 3 universities, one residential ISP and one dedicated servers provider (which is by the way one of the first in Europe, it's OVH) to leave UnderNet 10 years ago.
I'm aware Freenode isn't currently the preferred attack playground but I'm not comfortable to excessively affect our network strength.
To be an operator on one server is different to have to manage the issues at an upstream NOC level.
-- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/
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