Hrm, is vL getting ddos'd?

[MyndFyre]

I was just trying to post there and it died.  Anyone know?

[Sidoh]

I haven't been there in a long while.  I never really became active there...

You're welcome for the useless information!

[CrAz3D]

Seems to be working rather normally now.

[iago]

I spent the last 10 minutes or so there, and it worked fine.  Hmm!

[Newby]

vL? DDoS'd? bsd must have shown up on TehNet. :P

[deadly7]

Isn't Thing a badass sysadmin and not going to allow that, though? :(

[iago]

That's the scary thing about a DDoS -- there's absolutely no way to prevent it. 

[Newby]

That's the scary thing about a DDoS -- there's absolutely no way to prevent it. 

Cisco claims to be able to prevent it. I wonder how well it works...

[Ergot]

That's the scary thing about a DDoS -- there's absolutely no way to prevent it. 

Cisco claims to be able to prevent it. I wonder how well it works...

I saw a giant ad on the drive to San Francisco "Denial of Service -- Denied" or something like that.

[iago]

It depends on how the DDoS works.  If it's exhausting alll your bandwidth, there's nothing you can do about it.  If it's exhausting your memory/cpu, then it can be prevented with the right technologies. 

Yes, some IPS's can block it from memory-consumption.