Re: [emergency] CAP and DDoS

[Art Botterell <acb@incident.com>]

At 5:09 PM -0600 2/5/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Perhaps out of scope, but of interest:  how  would Distributed 
>Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks affect the capabilities of systems 
>using CAP?  Pretty much as it would affect  any IP server, yes?

Right.  In fact, any transport mechanism is vulnerable to some sort 
of denial-of-service attack, be it Internet-based DDOS, 
radio-frequency jamming or even plain old-fashioned "backhoe fade."

This is one of the reasons we've all worked so hard to keep CAP 
transport-independent.  Technical diversity, through the integrated 
use of a combination of distinct transport technologies, is one of 
the best ways to mitigate the risk of DoS attacks and accidents. 
It's a lot harder to jam every technology at once than it is to jam 
any one at a time.

- Art