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		monological on Dec 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS? hmm what if you 301 redirected (if http) the ddos flood back at 4chan, would that end up disabled their site?

monological on Dec 10, 2010 [–]

but that would mean that you only redirect packets based on filtering out the botnet IPs, which would be pointless because if you could distinguish between botnet IPs and valid users, then you'd have the ddos problem solved

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