Re: PgFoundry Down?

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- --On Friday, April 04, 2008 23:26:54 -0400 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> > <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> wrote:
>> >> That's not the first time, this machines was DDoSed, or?
>>
>> > Nope, but its the last time ... that client's VPS/site will not be coming
>> > back online ...
>>
>> While I can't argue with that, it's kinda depressing, because that's the
>> exact result the DDOS'ers hoped to achieve.
>
> What was the DDOS client doing that was causing this?

Well, most DDoS' attack a single IP from multiple hosts across the Internet ...
take a read of the following, which should explain it to you more indepth:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack>

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