DoS

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Dealing With Denial of Service Attacks

As Scott wrote last week, using a punny title I have to admire, he and I (among many others) were both the subject of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Looking through my logs, it looks to actually be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack coming from multiple IP addresses. The attack appears to actually be an attempt at a SQL Injection attack, but for his blog, which stores its data in XML files, that is entirely pointless. For my blog, which doesn’t do any inline SQL, it’s also mostly pointless. So far, the SQL injection part of...