In worst case our server can be delinked for that time. I believe that wikipedia is attacked way more often than IRC networks and we are able to resist that. (There are experts in staff, be sure)
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Sébastien Santoro <dereck...@espace-win.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@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. > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
