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Kephael on March 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter

Frequently there will be MX records or something similar pointing directly to the server. Even error pages can potentially leak a direct, unprotected IP.

hrrsn on March 23, 2016 [–]

If your email is hosted on the same machine as your web server, I don't think DDoS attacks are your highest priority.

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