On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >>> But as you and others have pointed out, not a lot of defense against >>> DDoS these days besides horsepower and anycast. :-) >> >> Not just anycast. I said distributed architecture. There are more ways to >> distribute than anycast. > > The content-side can be duplicated, replicated, distributed. On the > eyeball-side its not as easy to replicate things. DDOS against user > networks doesn't generate as much publicity, outside of the gammer world, but > is also a problem. > > Other than trying to hide your real address, what can be done to prevent > DDOS in the first place.
Don't piss people off on IRC? :) -- TTFN, patrick