Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
by nine_k on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:04PM
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A DDoS attack is indistinguishable from a huge legitimate success. See Slashdot effect [1].
The very problem of a DDoS attack stems from that (1) each request is a small, fully legitimate request and (2) there are too many of them, coming from too many sources for filtering to be efficient. It is also mixed with indistinguishable non-attack requests by your normal customers.
So no, even the best authentication would help little.
The very problem of a DDoS attack stems from that (1) each request is a small, fully legitimate request and (2) there are too many of them, coming from too many sources for filtering to be efficient. It is also mixed with indistinguishable non-attack requests by your normal customers.
So no, even the best authentication would help little.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect