Comments on: Another Day, Another DoS http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/ Technology, Hosting, Software, and more! Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: MikeDVB http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-24 MikeDVB Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:53:24 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-24 Technically it wouldn't count against the uptime as it's not something within our control (just as an act of god would not be) and due to the fact that the server was online and the network was online it was simply overwhelmed. I did give some credits to a few that were particularly upset but it seems the only customers that get upset are the ones that aren't paying much. 99.999% of our client base understands that this hurts us just as much if not more than them and that we keep things online as much as possible. I believe the excellent communication during the incidents helped keep our clients happy as they knew what was going on and what was being done about it. Technically it wouldn’t count against the uptime as it’s not something within our control (just as an act of god would not be) and due to the fact that the server was online and the network was online it was simply overwhelmed. I did give some credits to a few that were particularly upset but it seems the only customers that get upset are the ones that aren’t paying much. 99.999% of our client base understands that this hurts us just as much if not more than them and that we keep things online as much as possible.

I believe the excellent communication during the incidents helped keep our clients happy as they knew what was going on and what was being done about it.

]]> By: Alex/Depeche http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Alex/Depeche Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:08:16 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-23 That's horrible. With all that downtime does that count onto your 99.9% up time? Does it lower because of DDos or does it not count for a DDos attack? Good luck on future DDos attacks. That’s horrible.

With all that downtime does that count onto your 99.9% up time? Does it lower because of DDos or does it not count for a DDos attack?

Good luck on future DDos attacks.

]]> By: MikeDVB http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-20 MikeDVB Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:07:57 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-20 <a href="#comment-19" rel="nofollow">@Blind Bandit </a> Yeah, a bad couple of weeks indeed. This is 2 DDoS attacks in the period of a week and a half - to two different servers in our network. One of the attacks was easily filtered where as the other caused about 8 hours of intermittent downtime as the attack was HUGE and the attacker appeared to be actively monitoring it to counter our counter-measures. @Blind Bandit
Yeah, a bad couple of weeks indeed. This is 2 DDoS attacks in the period of a week and a half – to two different servers in our network.

One of the attacks was easily filtered where as the other caused about 8 hours of intermittent downtime as the attack was HUGE and the attacker appeared to be actively monitoring it to counter our counter-measures.

]]> By: Blind Bandit http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Blind Bandit Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:44:35 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-19 This sucks. Bad couple of weeks for web hosting. They don't seem to be letting up. This sucks. Bad couple of weeks for web hosting. They don’t seem to be letting up.

]]> By: MikeDVB http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-18 MikeDVB Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:04:57 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-18 <a href="#comment-17" rel="nofollow">@Amy </a> Most DDoS attacks are compromised systems that are part of a bot network. @Amy
Most DDoS attacks are compromised systems that are part of a bot network.

]]> By: Amy http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Amy Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:01:25 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-17 Ya and I think that has probably happened. I mean compromised computers. Ya and I think that has probably happened. I mean compromised computers.

]]> By: MikeDVB http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-16 MikeDVB Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:55:40 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-16 <a href="#comment-15" rel="nofollow">@Amy </a> The problem with that is, if the source is 1,000 computers that have been compromised and turned into bots... It's not going to do you any good to bounce the traffic back. @Amy
The problem with that is, if the source is 1,000 computers that have been compromised and turned into bots… It’s not going to do you any good to bounce the traffic back.

]]> By: Amy http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Amy Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:53:30 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-15 You do have a point there. I remember him saying some thing about being able to point the traffic back at the computer or network sending it in order to take the sender down. You do have a point there. I remember him saying some thing about being able to point the traffic back at the computer or network sending it in order to take the sender down.

]]> By: MikeDVB http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-14 MikeDVB Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:48:40 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-14 <blockquote cite="#commentbody-13"> <strong><a href="#comment-13" rel="nofollow">Amy</a> :</strong> <p>A local web host here has some thing called watch guard, I am friends with the system admin and he says it works great.</p> </blockquote> I'm not familiar with it but the issue is that if your entire network is say 1gbps and you get a 2gbps attack it doesn't matter how well your hardware or software can filter the attack because the pipe to your network is going to be flooded before it's filtered.

Amy :

A local web host here has some thing called watch guard, I am friends with the system admin and he says it works great.

I’m not familiar with it but the issue is that if your entire network is say 1gbps and you get a 2gbps attack it doesn’t matter how well your hardware or software can filter the attack because the pipe to your network is going to be flooded before it’s filtered.

]]> By: Amy http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/26/another-day-another-dos/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Amy Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:46:47 +0000 http://www.mikedvb.com/?p=57#comment-13 A local web host here has some thing called watch guard, I am friends with the system admin and he says it works great. A local web host here has some thing called watch guard, I am friends with the system admin and he says it works great.

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