[hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks
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
Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks
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
Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks
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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks
Short and tall is that you're looking at a much bigger bill than you were probably thinking. We recently did a charity event, and in expectation of trouble our sponsors put the server behind a DDoS-proof firewall. Had we have rented it rather than been given it for a day we were told the server instance would have been in the thousands to rent. Wasn't made clear if that would be daily weekly or monthly though. Agro KritzKast On 7 Nov 2014 06:51, IBIS Customer Service ibis.serv...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ___ 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
