For small guys like me, the upstream provider usually is actively involved
in stemming DOS attacks - and often thier upstream as well.I know that
they have been the subject of a couple of DDOS attacks, but yet we managed
to stay online with only some spikey latency and poor throughput to show.
The one thing I could not deal with alone, was when I was subjected to a
spam attack, where coordinated spamming was directed at my mail server, so
fast and so numerous were the attempts to send mail to it, that it came to a
halt, unable to send or receieve mail, and I literally chewed through 2.5
gigs of data transfer in a few hours- all inbound atttempts to send spam.
My upstream (also host my web and mail services) blocked that attack and
some future ones.
I routinely see ssh probes, ping scans, and other somewhat malicious
traffic attempting to reach my network. Some of which I have blocked now
right at the gateway to my provider.
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- Original Message -
From: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: [WISPA] more security reading
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
Don't seem to hear about these nearly as often anymore though. Have
things
gotten better or have I just been living under a rock for too long?
laters,
Marlon
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