Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
by jjrh on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:52PM
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Based on the article it sounds like they were mostly using the CDN part of Cloudflare's offering.
> No site or service should be forced to receive //every// bit of information sent at it.
They aren't, but usually public websites/services want to receive everything. Determining what's legitimate or not isn't easy because of the distributed part of DDoS.
> No site or service should be forced to receive //every// bit of information sent at it.
They aren't, but usually public websites/services want to receive everything. Determining what's legitimate or not isn't easy because of the distributed part of DDoS.