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To: Richard J. Haynal who wrote (30270)2/11/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
Denial of service attacks are designed to flood one machine or one IP address in such a fashion that it renders the service based on that machine or IP address useless.

Therefore it's not the system that is compromised but rather the path to that system that is. One commentator on the TV news explained it as a mass of people standing before a storefront blocking access to the store - the store would not be able to conduct business as usual.

Well, I'm thinking, that works if there's only ONE ENTRANCE to that store - just as there is ONE ENTRANCE (or pathway) into a website. If sites were to use more than one entrance (pathway) to their content either through caching servers or distributed data centers (?) then this denial of service attack could be defended against.

Just a thought -

Peter J Strifas
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