[Mystery-Machine]

Someone potentially taking the service down for everyone, you know, just out of curiosity. Which part of this curiosity you need GitHub for? I'm curious how well GitHub handles DDoS attacks, what's their limit. Let's DDoS and find out, it will be fun!

[SparkyMcUnicorn]

> Someone potentially taking the service down for everyone, you know, just out of curiosity.

I think this is exactly why it's great, and it's basically turned into a GitHub advertisement. Either GitHub is simply unable to handle weird abuse methods and/or the abuse prevention is improved.

As an enterprise, wouldn't it be a bit concerning if your git host was unable to function (or respond appropriately) when presented with a random script kiddie?

This person didn't have bad intentions, but other people out there most definitely do.

[Mystery-Machine]

GitHub is very much able to handle one person doing this. Doesn't matter if you had bad intentions or you were just ignorant to bad side effects.

[ryaneager]

You really think one lone repo could take down all of GitHub? If GitHub doesn’t have stops in place to prevent that then they honestly deserve it.

[Mystery-Machine]

So doing a DoS attacks from a single machine is fine, because "your servers can handle that"? Really? Of course GitHub can handle this, but if the sole purpose is to see where's the limit, you're stressing our servers and wasting our resources for nothing. I'd ban you no questions asked. Go test perf/scalability issues on someone else's live site.