On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:35 PM, 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. >
While I am not speaking for server hardening, our network can handle an extra 75 Mbps without a problem. However, this is a moot point.... if the community decides we want to talk, we in Operations can talk with freenode operations people and see what is safely mutually possible. Leslie > 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 -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
