Get a new datacenter. If they have to resort to blocking all int'l traffic
when they're getting hit, they're scrubs and don't deserve your moneys.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Ruben Lopes <[email protected]>wrote:

> The datacenter where I host my servers is constantly under heavy DDoS
> attacks. As a means of preventing that, the technical staff decided to
> block all international traffic (which includes Steam) when a attack takes
> place, because they come from outside. It works but as a secondary effect,
> gameservers ofter lose connection to VAC, TF2 Items are unavaliable, the
> server cannot be updated, probably doesn't show on the list, etc...
>
> So I proposed them that it was ok to keep that block, but all Steam server
> IP's/Hostnames that are essential for the full operation of a gameserver
> should be whitelisted on the firewall, as a exceptions to the global block,
> so that the connection to those servers is never interrupted.
>
> So I was hopping that someone here, maybe someone from Valve, could
> provide me the list of the said server adresses
>
> Thanks.
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