Re: fail2ban increase loadaverage to 18

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Leo Goehrs wrote:
> Null route will not protect the servers from a syn flood, the only way is to null route the attacked servers.

Null routing the source of the attacks will protect the servers from
*everything*, including customers in the null-routed networks.

It is of limited use on a DDoS because the attack source is all over the
map, but if all the crapflood comes from rackspace, null-routing them will
be very effective.

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