Phil Barnett writes: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote: > > There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening > > something new ( private access, invite only, acl by ip, etc), in hopes > > to avoid ddos and provide better services, more requent rule updates, > > and so on. We are trying our best to keep it alive, but there is > > only so much we can do with the limited time and resources we have. > > How about releasing the ruleset via torrent or something similar. Anything > that you could do to distribute the load and location would make a ddos > attack less effective. While there might not be a lot of people on this list > who can use their server to take on the entire DDOS for you, there are a LOT > of servers here that could participate in a pool.
If you're going to be looking into new methods to distribute rulesets, may I suggest sa-update? ;) --j.
