There is some sort of automated system to detect this; in fact, it's one of the things that makes running a reverse proxy dangerous. If any client trips the panic alert, your reverse proxy will be blocked and *all* customers will get an error msg.
If you are concerned about DDoS attacks, do what spamhaus did and use cloudflare. You don't need to activate it; you can just use CF for DNS and then switching it on is just a flip of the switch. You get good metrics about the number of attacks too. Note that CF (when active) is itself a reverse proxy, but their IP addresses are whitelisted by Google so it won't tickle Google's auto-blocking system. Since Google's system is completely opaque (you get no metrics), CF's is superior. Jeff On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, James Gilliam <jimgill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does GAE have safeguards against these DDoS attacks? > > The link below says such attacks can be up to 50 gigs per second. > > http://www.businessinsider.com/spamhaus-cyberbunker-ddos-attack-2013-3 > > I know gae has the dos.yaml but updating it takes forever compared to 50 > gigs per second and there is a limit of 10 entries I believe. > > I am seeing lots of abusive bots to ours sites which I am stopping with my > code. > > Fortunately, nothing at the 50 gigs per second rate. > > I am hoping GAE does some of its own monitoring for DDoS and will stop heavy > traffic from getting to the apps. > > Please advise. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
