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NZ Firm Shows Anti-DDoS Tool

Posted by timothy on from the it's-only-a-model dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "ComputerWorld NZ is covering a story about a New Zealand company, Esphion Ltd having coverage at the recent JWID (Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration), with their anti-DDoS tool. From the article (here), it looks like it seems to work pretty well."

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  1. I wonder if any anti-DDoS tool would help... by DocSnyder · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...against the /. effect.

    1. Re:I wonder if any anti-DDoS tool would help... by FrostedWheat · · Score: 3, Funny

      The only known defense against slashdotting is to have a crappy unimportant website.

      Oh wait... nevermind.

  2. Re:Having just recently been to New Zealand.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    yes I am sure it does involve sheep. As an Australian I believe it is my duty to imply that New Zealanders do bad things with sheep.

  3. it what now? by AndyChrist · · Score: 3, Funny

    "it looks like it seems to work pretty well."

    I guess it's pretty good at appearing to work.

  4. I think by gusnz · · Score: 5, Funny

    we just did!

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    <!-- DHTML / JavaScript menu, popup tooltip, Ajax scripts -->
  5. telnet www.esphion.com 80 by jukal · · Score: 5, Funny

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:41:32 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)
    FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.3 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

    I quess their product is so good, they can risk installing the frontpage extension in there. See who else thought so (defaced websites collection & HTTP info).

  6. I still maintain that its not the best solution... by GnomeKing · · Score: 3, Funny

    The industry standard baseball bat has a much better effect, is longer lasting, does not require uplink co-operation and is considerably cheaper

    Tests have shown that it is especially effective when aimed at the fingers, thus rendering the script kiddy unable to type ./DoS ip