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		jemfinch on May 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains a... HA Proxy isn't going to protect their pipe from congestion. Null routing the ip that's getting flooded will.

kordless on May 23, 2011 [–]

Until someone builds an attack suite that re-resolves the names in the middle of the attack.

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