Continued img.4chan.org downtime

So, it has been a while and img is still down, presumably powered down to prevent DDoS by a bunch of retards. Now, I I wouldn't normally care about /b/ and /r9k/, but the the truth is that the lost sheep are slowly but certainly seeping into the other boards. The performance hit is already quite noticeable, especially zip is awfully slow and unresponsive at times.

This brings me to question why moot hasn't started to employ some sort of countermeasure. While I realize that DDoS is generally hard to prevent, there should be at least some options depending on the form of attack, like TCP syn cookies, firewalling certain packet types, etc.

Insight into this topic would be much appreciated.

>>12
/b/tards downloading shit that infects their computers isn't exactly new. It provides great ammo whenever someone tries to claim that "/b/tards aren't idiots, they just act like idiots" like /prog/ ;-).