Is it at all technically possible to prevent DDoS attacks on a server?

[g***@cyberdude.com]

Is there some reliable way to prevent them, which works every time?

[Grant Taylor]

Post by g***@cyberdude.com
Is there some reliable way to prevent them, which works every time?

It depends what you mean by "prevent".

Can you stop people from perpetrating DDoS attacks in the first place? No.

Can you make things so that the server (on it's console) doesn't fall
over? Quite likely.

Can you protect the bandwidth of the network connecting the server to
the world? Maybe.

All of this is highly subjective to the specific situation you're in.

Then there are things like the Slowloris attack that are a DoS (and can
be distributed) but likely can't be stopped by traditional methods.

So, "…which works every time"? Not likely.