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		ryanlol on Aug 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks? Cloudflare doesn't help you against UDP floods if your backend is publicly accessible on the internet. For example: curl https://104.154.116.193 -H 'Host: www.stream.me' -v -k

anotherdpk on Aug 28, 2016 [–]

Indeed, it's a recent integration and we haven't yet shut off that IP.

Btw, check out curl's --resolve flag. You can use it to override default DNS resolution and can then drop the -k flag.

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