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Re: eBay nailed?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 05:44:56 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi everyone,
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> Well, I hear that the "attack-search" weenies have turned their guns
> from Yahoo to eBay and buy.com. Their method seems to be to simply
> overwhelm the search engine with constant queries--by the hundreds of
> thousands per minute. Sure enough, the search engine and all query
> spots are malfunctioning at the present time (midnight plus thirty EST),
> giving a "no contact" response. MisterLister also won't connect. I
> wonder, what does one do to protect a site from this intra-internet
> version of attack dialing? Has eBay merely taken the search engine
> offline until they can devise a solution?
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> Just a concern.
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> best,
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> Lindsay
Well, there is really very little that one can do to prevent this kind of
attack. Limiting people's ability to search is limiting users. It is very
difficult to determine what a genuine search and what is a bogus one, since
the bogus one is designed to look real.
It would be like 50,000 people in a town deciding to create a traffic jam.
Shutting down the road accomplishes what they are trying to do - deny access.
You can't arrest everyone driving because you can't prove who is legit and who
is not. Sure, there will be some that make it obvious, but you can't catch
all of them without catching some innocent people in the net as well.
Mike Poindexter
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| (...) The car analogy isn't perfect. One thing they can do is not respond to more than one query per second or some such from a given IP address, though that would screw companies with firewalls. Also, in the case of people driving cars to block (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| Hi everyone, Well, I hear that the "attack-search" weenies have turned their guns from Yahoo to eBay and buy.com. Their method seems to be to simply overwhelm the search engine with constant queries--by the hundreds of thousands per minute. Sure (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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