Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days
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Can someone explain why they're not able to protect against this? Couldn't they put request limits or monitor for spikes and banning these attempts?

Without knowing how, not really. If it's a massive multi-device botnet, like Mirai, for example, that's millions of indvidual devices across millions of addresses, so it isn't so simple as just blocking a domain. Trying to block all of them might well just block legitimate users.

Request limits also wouldn't work if it's millions of devices making a few requests at once, and an overall limit would have a similar locking-out effect as blocking everything. Especially if the DDoS is taking up most/all of that limit.

Just so crazy to me the scale.

Is there any range for how many "a few requests" would be needed to ddos a site like this?