You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame?

badger.foo writes "When you're hit with a DDOS, what do you do? In his most recent column, Peter Hansteen narrates a recent incident that involved a DNS based DDOS against his infrastructure and that of some old friends of his. He ends up asking: should we actively publish or 'name and shame' DDOS participants (or at least their IP addresses)? How about scans that may or may not be preparations for DDOSes to come?"

Comments

Why name and shame?

[Anonymous Coward]

DDoS the DDoSers, that'll show em!

Fight back, it's easy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Easy, you post the name of the attacker on Slashdot in an article about a new supercool anything and have him slashdotted.

Give all the IP's to the RIAA

[toygeek]

Make up some story about how you tracked down a huge network of movie pirates.