blogs.computerworld.com — Boycott Novell is a very popular and very opinionated free and open-source news site, and recently it's been hit by a Denial of Service attack. Could pro-Microsoft supporters are trying to bury the site?
May 19, 2009 View in Crawl 4
tuxchickMay 19, 2009
I've seen a number of troll campaigns against Roy on my site. Mostly one or two people posting multiple comments from the same IP address and using different names on each comment (Like duh, people! Who do you think you're fooling?), sometimes even from Novell.com addresses. (Like duh again, sheesh!) It's rare when any of them attempt any kind of factual rebuttal using their real names, or at least disclosing their Novell affiliations. Love Roy or hate him, stooping to these tactics doesn't do much for their credibility.ps- I haven't seen anything that even hints that Novell management have anything to do with the trolling or other attacks, and I think that is the least likely explanation. There are plenty of thin-skinned fanbois.
aero347May 19, 2009
Well you can either configure the firewall to act as a NAT or use it as a bridge, I was merely specifying which way I'd do it. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work, as the DDoS attacks comprise of, in this case meta information queries. A short term fix is to manually configure this firewall not to pass on packets that request this. Ofcourse the firewall would be taken down quickly due to the sheer number of requests and the processing power it would take to filter that many packets, which is why you'd need to set up load balancing array of firewalls. If the attacker has these kind of resources, your only two options are to match his resources and fight back, or lay down and play dead. I don't like to play dead.
oomfoofooMay 20, 2009
Burying the truth on boycottnovell? What truth on boycottnovell? Buried.
flatfishMay 22, 2009
Using the words "truth" and "Boycott Novell" in the same sentence is a classic oxymoron.The moron being Roy Schestowitz.
benologistMay 26, 2009
Schestowitz never lets the truth get in the way of bashing Microsoft, or sleep get in the way of flooding the internets with his rants.