Situation Update (from Pandora)

[huihshen]

Ok, I don't know what exactly Panda have done so far, but here is what I was suggested in the case of an DoS attack by my friend who's got a PhD in computer science

you have to require IP resolution before servicing the request, if the same IP tries to make a lots of requests in a short period of time you then block them. It will still be lagging while you are singling out all the IPs of the offender because they are still flooding in. But then it will end, rather than Denied service for as long as the attacker wants.

The IP resolution is much less computationally intensive than the actual requests, especially if its cached, its just in memory and it just needs to compare it, it is like 1 primative

PS. if it is too overloaded for Pandora to make these changes, she probably has to disconnect the server and look at the logs