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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by meebi on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:03AM (#7190395)
Most DDoS attacks directed at IRC networks are not government related. IRC networks have a long and proud history of being one of the most DDoS-prone targets on the internet.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by wcummings on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:15AM (#7190448)
For this reason many hosts disallow IRC in their ToS
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by baldfat on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:47AM (#7190611)
To my understanding to take down an IRC server doesn't even need to be a DDOS (Distrubuted Denial of Service) AKA multiple of computers and connections. One good DoS (Denial of Service) AKA one computer one connection, is all it takes to take it down.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by pixl97 on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:39AM (#7191217)
Those are easy to block with a firewall policy. DDOS is the only way to sustain an attack.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by forgottenpass on Thursday February 06, 2014 @10:33AM (#7190830)
It's a matter of bandwidth. If a single malicious actor can clog the the IRC server's uplink on the internet facing side of their firewall yes, otherwise no.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by anaphor on Thursday February 06, 2014 @01:05PM (#7191833)
It's probably the case that lots of people try that, but unless the IRC server(s) are being hosted on their home network then I doubt one or two computers could bring a whole IRC network down.
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