19 Jan 2003 daniels   » (Master)

mglazer: Uh, that won't do shit to prevent DDoS. You're still running all that PHP, which is chewing up resources. If I ping -f'd you, or started a billion instances of netcat, all from different, well-connected hosts, in an infinite loop of requesting pages, your server would still be brought to your knees. Using PHP to "stop DDoS" is possibly the most stupid idea I've ever heard.

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