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Old 03-01-2010, 09:07 AM
Taurinus
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Originally Posted by blackdragonsdg View Post
Did someone DDoS your server? Or is that why this site was down yesterday afternoon?

If DDoS attacks keep happening then someone needs to look at investing in a hardware firewall, a simple relatively inexpensive one would stop dos and ddos attacks dead in there tracks. Even a decent software firewall can mitigate the effect of such attacks.
No offense but a firewall (hardware or otherwise) does nothing to mitigate DDoS attacks. The very nature of the login server (and basically any other type of public server) requires that ports be open to any number of clients from a totally unknown range of IPs. You might be thinking "well, the firewall could close the port during an attack at least". You're right, and that's exactly what a DDoS attacker wants you to do.

If anything, a software firewall would only compound the problem by helping the packets spike the CPU. Do you honestly think such an "obvious" solution is being overlooked by the administration?
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