Mitigating the DDOS attacks. Possibilities inside.

[Krazed]

Found this today. Haven't thought too muh into it (still half asleep).

Could this possibly work for us? The only issues I see would be possible delays in response time to/from server and client.

Again, haven't thought too much into it. Just trying to help as I see how this works well from a website mitigation perspective.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013...mhaus-offline/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast

[thryme]

Sounds expensive to employ any company to help with this.

[Swish]

DDoS'er will run out of funds at some point... funny how people will burn money on DDoS'ing services. I wonder if he's tweeting live from mom's basement?

[Nimblefork]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DDoS'er will run out of funds at some point... funny how people will burn money on DDoS'ing services. I wonder if he's tweeting live from mom's basement?

You honestly think you need to have "funds" in order to hack around 20 computers and send requests through them? No funds required dude.

[khanable]

Why does everyone assume the person behind the ddos is paying for it?

Bad assumption

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why does everyone assume the person behind the ddos is paying for it?

Bad assumption

[thryme]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why does everyone assume the person behind the ddos is paying for it?

Bad assumption

I agree - I was just thinking hiring a company to combat it for us would seem to be costly.

[Glorindale]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why does everyone assume the person behind the ddos is paying for it?

Bad assumption

I wouldn't assume that someone is paying for it. Nor would I assume these is some uber hacker who has compromised thousands of computers who would use them to DDOS a free EQ server responsible for the attack.

[Glorindale]

Do we know that p1999 is even the target? A DDOS attack could cause congestion on a network segment that just happens to be shared with the true target which effectively denies service to EVERYONE who shares that segment. If it is truely targeted at p1999 servers many times these attacks are sourced from a single (or maybe a few regions) such as China. You could mitigate the effectiveness of the attack by blocking traffic to IP ranges used in these regions. In fact if the server is hosted somewhere I'm sure the staff of the facility would love to help push these DOS traffic out and would love to help.

[Volibear]

Originally Posted by Glorindale [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do we know that p1999 is even the target? A DDOS attack could cause congestion on a network segment that just happens to be shared with the true target which effectively denies service to EVERYONE who shares that segment. If it is truely targeted at p1999 servers many times these attacks are sourced from a single (or maybe a few regions) such as China. You could mitigate the effectiveness of the attack by blocking traffic to IP ranges used in these regions. In fact if the server is hosted somewhere I'm sure the staff of the facility would love to help push these DOS traffic out and would love to help.

They are sending everquest packets