# Information *** Under normal conditions, the filtering and mitigation process completes within **less than 5 seconds**, ensuring minimal impact on legitimate users. However, during **extremely large-scale DDoS attacks**, the **edge may temporarily become overloaded**. In such scenarios, mitigation can take a few seconds to fully block malicious traffic. If an attack reaches **several hundred thousand requests per second (RPS)**, the affected website may experience temporary downtime. During this time, the system is actively analyzing the traffic and beginning the mitigation process in the background. Once enough attack patterns are identified, the system begins **blocking malicious IPs**, and the attack is mitigated at **Layer 4**, eliminating further load on the edge. #### Important Characteristics: * The **longer an attack persists**, the more effective the mitigation becomes. * **Short, high-volume bursts** may not be fully mitigated during their short runtime, which may result in the edge not responding temporarily. This **does not mean mitigation has failed**, but rather that the system requires time to react. * Over time, **even short attacks** are detected and mitigated. * Frequent attacks help the system **learn and improve** its mitigation strategy, resulting in **faster response** with each subsequent attempt. This adaptive behavior ensures that while initial response time may vary during massive spikes, the system ultimately neutralizes all forms of attack efficiently and with minimal long-term impact.\ \ Note: Cloudflare or other CDNs may not work in front of our proxy. Please do not open tickets regarding issues with Cloudflare or other CDN services. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.packets-decreaser.net/ddos-protection/layer-7/information.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.