On May 18, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Rogelio wrote: > This solution would need to be tied into the authentication services so > authenticated users hit the gateway.
So the attackers can just hammer the authentication subsystem and take it down, instead? ;> By going the 'authentication' route in the sense you mean it, you'll make it even more trivially easy to DDoS the Web servers than is possible without such a system. <http://www.mail-archive.com/nanog@nanog.org/msg17914.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde
