Well if anything it will make the pool admins more aware of the holes in their systems.
facepalm...do you know how botnets work?
The only real way for admins to stop a ddos attack from crippling is to A) wait it out B) have so much connection bandwidth a ddos attack does nothing. So you are telling server owners to buy ridiculous amounts of bandwidth?
It's like saying the solution to people stealing gas out of your car is to buy more gas.
Well, I have another idea... Don't know if can work by the way...
c) Make mining pool inaccessible from the outside, from the Internet (no route for it, no DNS), making the pool at some intranet, so, every single miner, like you and me, should authenticate itself in some Internet point and then, it will be able start a VPN with some hidden Internet VPN server and voiala, we will have access to the Mining Pool intranet network.
c.1) The login system at the Internet is just a "login"... Should be hosted everywhere... It should be simple and not browser dependent...
c.2) The VPN servers will be accessible only after the login, only for that session, otherwise, they will remain closed by firewalls and/or border gateways...
c.3) The VPN servers will be hosted everywhere too, the behind them, there is a Mining Pool...
I'm thinking in OpenVPN or IPSec to achieve this...
We will be able to identify and close any irregular traffic, not affecting the regular users / miners...
To the miners, this should be totaly transparent, they just need to setup one more user/pass somewhere, that will be used before miner starts...
Well, this is just an idea that come to mind as I was sleeping... \o/