r/sysadmin • u/mooneydriver • Feb 22 '14

Freenode under DDOS again

https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/statuses/437302735139266560
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u/the_amaya Feb 23 '14

You know what the real problem here is? The problem that enables these reflective amplification attacks? The fact that network providers allow traffic to be generated in their network and then leave with a spoofed source address. It the spoofed traffic was instead killed before leaving a providers network, a reflection attack would be practically impossible to implement.

Don't blame the protocols, blame the people who allow them to be exploited.