09-21-2010, 10:43 AM
Velvet is right. You can't block these sorts of attacks at source because there are so many sources spread all around the world and they're constantly being replaced as someone powers down and someone else powers up.
So you can only block them at the target. That means you need a gatekeeper of some sort to allow "good" traffic through and block "bad" traffic. But the bad guys can always scale up the volume of traffic so that the path leading up to the gate is permanently full--preventing most if not all "good" traffic even reaching it.
So you can only block them at the target. That means you need a gatekeeper of some sort to allow "good" traffic through and block "bad" traffic. But the bad guys can always scale up the volume of traffic so that the path leading up to the gate is permanently full--preventing most if not all "good" traffic even reaching it.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."