Good Writeup in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20378510 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:14:16 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:14:16 EDT Re: Good Writeup http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20384689 justin : That would be even harder than serving them a normal page upon request.

Some newer web servers have introduced a way of giving preference and priority to existing users (on the site before it got full up), or users with an encrypted token that they pick up when they login.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20384689 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:03:35 EDT Re: Good Writeup http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20383043 SND2005 :
said by justin See Profile :

No, they didn't tell me. Just an opinion they had on the best way to mitigate. I can see where they are coming from it sucks to have other customers knocked around.
Would it be possible to switch over to a "CAPTCHA" type mechanism to weed out real traffic during an attack? Possibly you could route requests from BOTs back to themselves, and route positive CAPTCHA replies to the real web or backup web address? Sorta a pseudo secret handshake? ;-)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20383043 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:02:31 EDT Re: Good Writeup http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20380615 Calliope : Thank you for the article. Although I do not understand it in its entirety, it is certainly enlightening and answered a few questions for me. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20380615 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:38:29 EDT Re: Good Writeup http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20379194 justin : No, they didn't tell me. Just an opinion they had on the best way to mitigate. I can see where they are coming from it sucks to have other customers knocked around.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20379194 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:22:23 EDT Good Writeup http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20378510 Matt : Good info Justin. Can't wait for the 2nd article with technical specifics.

Also, did NAC really tell you to just "not piss people off"? Wow.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20378510 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:51:43 EDT