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		_3u10 on Nov 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FastMail under DDoS Attack The AI would whitelist traffic, those streams pass through quickly, everything else gets filtered. The problem is your CPUs filter traffic faster than your NICs accept it, thus dropped packets, thus unhappy customers.

ori_b on Nov 11, 2015 [–]

"Excuse me, boss, there's a very robotic voice on the line. It seems to be attempting to negotiate running new fiber to a data center"

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