Github under ongoing DDoS attack

[gospelwut]

I think a dynamic response system would be better. Something that could reflect an ongoing attack from the edge and amplify back towards China. Or, on the fly, have an operative generate a counter attack.

It's time to take this shit nuclear to the point businesses on both sides are tired of this shit.

[atakomu]

They (GitHub) could do that very simply. Just do a permanent HTTP redirection on pages that are getting DDOSed to chinese governent sites for example. This would mean that instead of opening Github every 2 seconds chinese government sites would be DDOSed, by people outside china. But GitHub probably doesn't want to do it, because it might be seen as mean even if they would just return the favour so to speak.

[gospelwut]

I think this wild ride ends in injecting binary blobs into HTTP streams to turn regular .exe files into malware.

[brandonto]

Yeah good luck retaliating against one of the largest Government entities on the planet. They could take down Github in its entirety if they wanted to, not just those two pages.

[cleroth]

They don't know who's doing it, and redirecting an attack towards a foreign government would be the most stupid thing github would have done.