[NTLUG:Discuss] DoS attacks

[Rick Matthews]

Mike wrote:
> 
> The best defense mechanism (in the article i'm summarizing 
> here) was to stop responding to bogus requests when the 
> server hits a critical percentage of bogus requests to real 
> requests.  That is, IF of last 500 requests, over say 50% 
> are bogus, start acting like you aren't there for bogus 
> requests. 

I can improve upon that advice... Stop responding to bogus requests
when the server is powered up.  Of course I think knowing which
requests are bogus may be part of the problem...

Rick