[gopher] if anyone on this list is 76.72.161.76, knock it off

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Thu Nov 5 19:57:33 UTC 2015


> > Sorry for silly question (I am not 76.72.161.76) but how can one ip
> > address overload a server?
>
> reflection and amplification

Any large amount of rapid-fire requests will amount to a DoS even without
that. I don't have an infinite uplink.

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