[tor-talk] How to protect a hidden service from DoS attacks?

[Watson Ladd]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:34 PM, morphium <morphium at morphium.info> wrote:
> 2011/3/4  <hikki at safe-mail.net>:
>> Is it even possible? Since everyone is your entry node's IP, if you block it,
>> no one will be able to connect to your service.
>
> What attack exactly? To eat up your bandwidth? "Protection" would look
> the same as in the "regular" internet: get more bandwidth.
And this would be a great way to unmask a hidden service. Call in a
DOS and watch the traffic, or a supposedly related site go down.
Hidden services should run on dedicated links as a result.
>
> Best regards,
> morphium
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Sincerely,
Watson Ladd

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