Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last five days

Presumably changing the IP address that Wikileaks uses doesn't help because the bots doing the DDoS grab the IP address from DNS. Assuming Wikileaks doesn't mind the downtime (they're going to be down anyways) why not set the wikileaks web-related DNS entries to point to an IP address that fbi.gov or whitehouse.gov uses for, say, their email server?<p>Perhaps law enforcement might then have a vested interest in discovering the source of those attacks if their ability to receive email gets shot to hell.

&#62;Apparently they're from the U.S., believe Julian Assange is a terrorist, and plan to keep attacking WikiLeaks for as long as possible.<p>This is silly. Judgements of Assange aside, isn't Wikileaks just a portal for a collection of torrents? If that's the case, what an utter waste of time and bandwidth.

The comments from "DietPepsi" do not sound like American English. I don't think whoever wrote it is American.<p><pre><code> &#62; his attempt at aslyum in Ecuador. [sic] </code></pre> Americans would say, "... to gain asylum..."<p><pre><code> &#62; as a protest against his attempt </code></pre> Americans would say, "... to protest his attempt ..."<p>They are not "apparently" American to me and Ms. Protalinski should refrain from accepting their quotes at face value.

This could be related to the Syria data dump. Russia and maybe China could have assets exposed in these emails.<p>And we all know the Ruskies have bot bandwidth to burn!

Is it really that difficult to fend off a DDoS?