[BC] Internet attacks

[Jonathan E. Hardis]

>My question; what kind of idiots run these Government sites? It is 
>trivial to thwart an external attack!
>
>You just take the affected servers off-line by removing them from 
>DNS lookups (leaving them actually running to corral the attacks), 
>and adding the backup servers to the DNS. No backup servers? Idiots 
>them all, if true.

Richard,

I'm sure that you are absolutely right.  Attackers only hit stale IP 
addresses and never bother to get fresh addresses from DNS.

Also, about those Government idiots -- why, I bet they load-balance 
their servers -- the fools that they are -- instead of letting a set 
of backup machines sit idle and unused until just this sort of attack 
happens.

   - Jonathan