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cagenut on May 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains a...

Seriously a SYN flood? How 90's.

Side affect of running on AWS, you can't use a "real" firewall.

Even then don't they use ha-proxy up front? I'm surprised this was an issue.

jemfinch on May 23, 2011 | [–]

HA Proxy isn't going to protect their pipe from congestion. Null routing the ip that's getting flooded will.

kordless on May 23, 2011 | | [–]

Until someone builds an attack suite that re-resolves the names in the middle of the attack.

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