The cicso guard routers work really well but are like a half a million dollars or something crazy.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Weasels Lair <wea...@weaselslair.com> wrote: > Unfortunately if is truly a DDOS (distributed attack, rather than from a > single source) just adding a firewall (any kind) is not really going to > help. By the time the traffic hits any firewall local to your server its > too late. It needs to be dealt with upstream. > > You need a hosting provider that is setup to detect and mitigate such > attacks, and more importantly the knowledge, experience and WILLINGNESS to > address such attacks - instead of just blocking your IP. Maybe some folks > on the list can make some recommendations. > > My own experience with the more common hosting providers has been much > like your own. But, I guess that's what I get for using the cheapest > providers I can find. > On Nov 6, 2014 9:35 PM, "Mike Vail" <supp...@boomgaming.net> wrote: > >> Hello Fellow Windows 2008 Game Server Owners, >> >> Today one of my TF2 servers on the dedicated server box I own and >> colocate in California got DDOS attacked by a guy who announced the attack >> via in-game chat and then attacked it. The attack got my IP auto-nulled by >> my datacenter (AGAIN), which has happened at least a dozen times in the >> past couple months. After almost 10 years of running servers and dealing >> with this bullshit, I'm at the point where I'm ready to spend the bucks to >> purchase a hardware device or some firewall software that says "Fuck you! - >> Not happening this time dickhead" to these people and I really need your >> advice on where to go and what to buy. There's a lot of admin and Windows >> experience here on this list so I'm hoping some of some of you can help me >> and we can have a dialog here that may help others as well. >> >> Your help would be GREATLY appreciated by me as well as others on this >> list I'm sure. >> >> Warmest regards, >> Mike Vail >> Windsor, Ca. USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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