Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult.
Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsplits was a favorite pastime of bored teenagers around the world.
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Twitter and all of these other commercial services lack the sheer resiliency of IRC.
Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult.
Twitter doesn't fail-whale as often but it's still centralised and not overly reliable or robust in comparison.
Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult.
Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsplits was a favorite pastime of bored teenagers around the world.
That's not so easy to do any more.
I'd say it's easier if anything. http://www.nimbusddos.com/