[Gllug] nslookup resolves but not ping or http

[Jacob Mansfield]

the current google entry seems to go to 213.251.145.96.
as for DDoS a friend of mine wrote a script designed to send 2 dos packets
back for every one received. the consequences; PING-WAR
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer



On 8 December 2010 20:24, Progga <proggaprogga at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:08:26AM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 22:46 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> > > Hmm,   think it actually not a propagation issue after all......
> > > Having tried the bytemark nameservers directly using nslookup, none of
> > > them would respond to any query  - so looks like they are 'dead'
> >
> > Do be aware that if you host a wikileaks mirror your server will be
> > attacked with the DDoS that is attacking wikileaks.
>
> Look at the up side.  If you host a mirror, then you get an
> opportunity to practise fending off DDoS attacks :-)
>
> I once read an article [0] linked from reddit which detailed someone's
> experience and it sounded really interesting.
>
> [0]
> http://blog.unixy.net/2010/08/the-penultimate-guide-to-stopping-a-ddos-attack-a-new-approach/
>
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