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Fighting DOS with GOS?

Service denials of bloggers are getting out of hand. So, NZ Bear has an idea about fighting back:

It seems that what we bloggers need is a way to combat a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack which leverages the same principals as the attack itself --- most particularly, the Distributed part. Call it a Distributed Guarantee Of Service.

The challenge is this: how could we establish a system so that a blogger suffering a DDOS attack (or simple system downtime, even) could be guaranteed a way to post during their outage.

The key part would be setting up a way for member blogs to 'host' a downed blogger's posts. It seems to me that there are two categories of bloggers that matter here: those that are on limited / controlled hosts such as Blogspot (who therefore can't run server-side scripts, but can generally include Javascript code) and those who have full hosts (who can run PHP or other server-side scripts).

So what I'm picturing is a PHP script that would provide the actual 'hosting' which would run on the full hosts, and actually act as a temporary guest home for a downed blogger. And then perhaps a Javascript applet for the limited hosts which could at least serve as a notifying beacon that there is a blogger in 'down' status, and link a reader to the full hosts to actually see that blogger's posts.

I got lost somewhere in there, but the rest of you are better than I am at this stuff.

Whaddaya think? Will a DGOS (Distributed Guarantee Of Service) work? If not, what will?

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I think the solution to redundancy in general is called the 'internet,' though we've yet to put it to the ultimate test. Regarding the redundancy of data, lots of tools have been written, such as unison and rsync, though a little scripty craftiness and ssh will do in a pinch. Anybody know how FreeNet is coming along? One day all of our bits will be joyfully intermingled.