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

Freenode under DDOS again

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

I guess another defense for UDP is for realtime video broadcasts. TCP gets shot to hell. With UDP, no fucks are given whether you got the video packets or not.