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by jabl 209 days ago
Maybe, but in that case maybe have some special casing logic to detect that yes indeed we're under a massive DDOS at this very moment, do a rapid rollout of this thing that will mitigate said DDOS. Otherwise use the default slower one?

Of course, this is all so easy to say after the fact..

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Isn’t CF under a ‘massive DDOS’ 24/7 pretty much by definition? When does malicious traffic rest, and how many targets of same aren’t using CF?
It's literally in the blog post as well

> In the internal incident chat room, we were concerned that this might be the continuation of the recent spate of high volume Aisuru DDoS attacks: