[e-gold-list] prolexic

[Graham Kelly]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:39:04 +0800, "NUK" <langk at katzmail.net> said:
> > I thought that e-gold used Prolexic to avoid this... Did Prolexic fail?

> There is no such thing as 100% protection against a concerted DDOS from
> many originating sources. Prolexic is definitely good, but some DDOS
> attacks can overwhelm it(or anything else) for a period of time if they
> and large enough and sustained long enough. Anyone who says or claims
> otherwise is a fool. 

I agree... the GoldNow site was affected for about 33 secs, over the
past week, with DDOS. Not 100%, but as close as we can get it. Quite
tolerable, really... 

What happens, is all sites have IP's... and programmers have to be extra
smart in "hiding" and "masking" the real IP, so as to avoid DDOS. Most
of them are (now) well skilled at avoiding DDOS, even before they start
to use Prolexic's services.

Graham Kelly CEO 


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