Todays stupidity at it's peak...

[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39148215,00.htm|Here’s an example] of how NOT to handle a DoS attack.

For those of you not in the know, a DoS (Denial of Service) attack is, crudely, where you flood someone’s connection or service with meaningless data or random requests respectivly, effectivly, denying access to the service, either because the network cannot withstand the amount of traffic being sent accross it, or because the service can’t handle that many requests and starts queueing them up or just wibbles and dies in wierd and creative reasons ...