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Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem?

Posted by Soulskill on from the build-another-internet-and-don't-tell-the-hackers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Distributed denial of service attacks have become a big problem. The internet protocol is designed to treat unlimited amounts of unsolicited traffic identically to important traffic from real users. While it's true DDoS attacks can be made harder by fixing traffic amplification exploits (including botnets), and smarter service front ends, there really doesn't seem to be any long term solution in the works. Does anyone know of any plans to actually try and fix the problem?

3 of 312 comments (clear)

  1. RFC 3514 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Widespread adoption of the security flag should help quite a bit.

  2. a simple, academic solution. by nimbius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Im a full-time computer science researcher and its not mentioned often, but the only real way to stop a DDoS is toET$)##515E@[NO CARRIER]

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    Good people go to bed earlier.
  3. Re:The "NO CARRIER" joke by derfy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I ran
    ET$)##515E@[NO CARRIER]
    though perl and it installed Ubuntu 14.04.
    Weird.