Also, giving up and leave the hackers win (despite they didn't even start attacking us) is not really brave solution :-)
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
