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>>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:36:59 PDT, Blue Boar said: >> Possibly more of a bad name. I don't see anything inherently evil in >> distributed front-end proxies. Doubtful how workable it is, though. > >Am I misreading the fine article, or are they saying it's harder for >a botnet to DDoS a server if it's load-balanced across a shitload of >front-end servers, preferably geographically diverse? > Similar in nature to how an Akamai-zed presence can basically allow the Akamai CDN to "absorb" a DDoS. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIDmUtq1pz9mNUZTMRAg50AKCvocB+9b4qfLSOKYiLCjtcogLhUwCg876B Fufsq42aXp6iHQBGtXV10qM= =EpjU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
