D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

Sun Jan 10 03:33:19 UTC 2010

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
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> On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Roger Marquis wrote:

>> Have you noticed how easily Drupal servers go down with corrupt MyISAM tables?  How would S/RTBH and/or flow-spec protect against that?
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> We're talking about DDoS mitigation in order to keep the servers up and running, so that they don't go down ungracefully and corrupt anything in the first place.

have you noticed how putting your DB and WEB server on the same
hardware is a bad plan?

separate the portions of the pie... only let the attack break the
minimal portion of your deployment. Use the right tool in the right
place.

-chris