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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Can someone explain why they're not able to protect against this? Couldn't they put request limits or monitor for spikes and banning these attempts?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

Without knowing how, not really. If it's a massive multi-device botnet, like Mirai, for example, that's millions of indvidual devices across millions of addresses, so it isn't so simple as just blocking a domain. Trying to block all of them might well just block legitimate users.

Request limits also wouldn't work if it's millions of devices making a few requests at once, and an overall limit would have a similar locking-out effect as blocking everything. Especially if the DDoS is taking up most/all of that limit.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Just so crazy to me the scale.

Is there any range for how many "a few requests" would be needed to ddos a site like this?

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