I think they need to use something similar to this ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Netw...
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#72They couldn't wait a day?
http://gizmodo.com/china-finally-admits-it-has-an-army-of-ha...
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That's not how international internet peering works though; it's entirely a set of private agreements. It's not even a given that the traffic has either Chinese IP source addresses or is actually from China.
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#74You should trace the attackers by tracing back. Work with your upstream providers and mailing lists (NANOG) and publicly shame these attackers. Likely, they are spoofing addresses - validate that and make sure you let the network know where the spoofed traffic is sourcing from to follow BCP38 and BCP84, defined by RFCs 2827 and 3704.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
Forgive my outburst, and maybe this sentiment won't be well received given the context, but I just find it to be downright unpatriotic for a US company like CloudFlare to stand there saying things like what Matt Prince says in your quote, when someone comes under attack by an opposing nation state. Again, I realize this place isn't exactly a bastion for this kind of sentiment, but have some thought for freedom here,…
Not everyone desires to take part in geopolitics and become a tool of diplomacy. Some people just want to do their business and it's perfectly fine in my opinion. You can't force people to be patriotic or to feel a patriotic call.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
Forgive my outburst, and maybe this sentiment won't be well received given the context, but I just find it to be downright unpatriotic for a US company like CloudFlare to stand there saying things like what Matt Prince says in your quote, when someone comes under attack by an opposing nation state. Again, I realize this place isn't exactly a bastion for this kind of sentiment, but have some thought for freedom here,…
I got confused, are you talking about bringing freedom to the US ? :)
Kidding aside, not saying you're wrong, but companies that want to maximize profit take a too big of a risk alienating a possible big market...
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#77Contact Akamai who recently bought the DDOS mitigation service Prolexic. They may be able to mitigate the attack and save you bandwidth costs. Alternatively, call CloudFlare. Don't just absorb this through Amazon.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
I imagine it's more about calculated self-interest than it is taking a political or moral position.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
> "We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries," said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. "We’re a tech company and we comply with the law." There's a popular idea that businesses (and people) have no responsibilities to anyone but themselves, because what they have is theirs; they built it themselves. But if you think about it a little, it's obviously false. Here's…
That's an optimistic view. My take on it is "market share|revenue > human rights".
EDIT: It turns out Lantern was using an exploit at Cloudflare [+], and wasn't a customer. My apologies /u/eastdakota.
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#79Contact Akamai who recently bought the DDOS mitigation service Prolexic. They may be able to mitigate the attack and save you bandwidth costs. Alternatively, call CloudFlare. Don't just absorb this through Amazon.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
What do you expect? One third of CloudFlare's planned data centers are in China [1]. It's commercial suicide to not comply.
[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-more-thing-keyless-ssl-and-c...
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article. "CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re…
> "We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries," said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. "We’re a tech company and we comply with the law." There's a popular idea that businesses (and people) have no responsibilities to anyone but themselves, because what they have is theirs; they built it themselves. But if you think about it a little, it's obviously false. Here's…
> There's a popular idea that businesses (and people) have no responsibilities to anyone but themselves.
It's not just a popular idea, it's why they are created as firms instead of philanthropies. There is a difference and it does matter what the expectations of the donors/investors are.
> We're a tech company whose success is completely dependent on the freedoms in our nation...
This sounds great but how is it reflected in company policies?
> They can't sacrifice their company for every principle, every time, but there's a middle ground between that 'we're just a tech company so we have no responsibilities'.
A company could easily make a statement to its investors about its moral stance on issues that it expects might harm the bottom line.
The company does have responsibility to its investors not to go rogue and burn cash just because it feels good. Most of the time the kind of corporate behavior that you praise is actually clever PR that costs the companies little.