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Old 03-14-2008, 07:44 PM   #32 (permalink)
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depending on the type of DDOS attack, your http redirect may not even pass the DDOS traffic to whitehouse.gov.

Most severe DDOS attacks are either UDP floods or TCP SYN floods to your IP. If you redirect your website with mod_rewrite or whatever, the traffic is still hitting your IP.
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