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To: BirdDog who wrote (17644)	2/10/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Atin	Read Replies (1) of 54805

It isn't that easy -- the flooding was happening by using many scores of "zombie" machines -- not just one machine. It would be easy to catch if only a few machines were involved -- but yahoo.com etc cannot differentiate between legit requests coming from you and me and a flood of requests coming from hundreds or thousands of machines that are being controlled by a program and don't care about the answer, all those machines were doing was make the requests to overload the servers. Any one machine was not "flooding". JavaChat would die the same horrible death if it was flooded the same way -- think of thousands and thousands of users logged onto it at the same time, making the same requests at the same instant. The filtering has to be done "upstream" -- some sort of rate limiting -- but that hurts legit users also even if it doesn't crash the servers because the legit requests would be competing with the 'bot requests. -Atin

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