Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end

Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by wizzwizz4 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:12PM (#28580527)

The public would still use internet applications, like Facebook. They just wouldn't be able to use the web any more.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by toast0 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:30AM (#28582154)

I don't think Facebook's apps work when there's no access to DNS. At least it didn't seem like it when I was working to keep that capability for WhatsApp as it moved into FB datacenters.

I don't think very many other applications will work without DNS either, although I never did much competitive testing.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by wizzwizz4 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:00AM (#28584847)

Facebook could (relatively) easily modify their system to do its own IP handling; they probably have enough money to rebuild the entire stack.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by toast0 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:27PM (#28590126)

Sure, they could, but at least while I was there, there was no interest in doing it, and amazement than anyone else would want to (and push back on declaring at least a handful of IPs as stably allocated enough to be included in app downloads).

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by xrisk on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:10AM (#28582326)

Telegram does AFAIK.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by mitigating on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:24PM (#28580576)

Apps use hostsnames 99% of the time.

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