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Re:Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx by nchelluri on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @12:33AM (#10782143)
What layers were they on? Lots of traffic means network?

Just hoping you can give a concrete example, as I'm not super familiar with this stuff.

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Re:Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx by greenleafjacob on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @12:44AM (#10782164)
AWS said at re:Invent 2015 that about 15% of DDoS attacks on AWS were application layer [1]. Some were state exhaustion at 20% (SYN floods, etc.) but the vast majority (65%) were "volumetric" attacks, meaning layer three like DNS reflection and SSDP reflection.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ys0gG1koqJA?t=172

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Re:Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx by nchelluri on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:43AM (#10782290)
Exactly the kind of information I was looking for; thanks.
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