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Battle Server Outage - Currently Online
Hi,
So this morning I recieved multiple emails from my upstream host and my monitoring system informing things were offline.
It appears that the Battle Server has been attacked in a targeted DDOS multiple times, not sure if it still going on but at this stage my upstream host appears to have blocked all traffic to the box.. (either that or it has bsod).
For now, while I am investigating this issue it probably will remain offline however I will attempt to get it up as soon as possible.
I have noticed a large amount of gmod restarts as of late aka server crashing, I have hoped that folks would start to actually not crash the server but this will be also investigated.
Feel free to post comments etc, asking for IP's / attackers information will not be provided, as "ddossing" them is futile and simple stoops to their level.
***************EDIT***************
Added an Additional address & set it to the primary address. aka new ip address, not sure when host wil decide to allow traffic again for orig ip.. "178.63.177.25"
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Update
So, again last night (my time) the server was ddosd awesomely again.. this time it was double the traffic as last "yay", appears that they may have targeted the build server as well, however this time I won't be changing the server to another IP Address at this stage.
I will be contacting the providers of the IP's that attacked and hopefully getting them pulled / looked into and chasing up with my upstream on what the story is / how to reduce the damage.
Once again, asking for IP's / attackers information will not be provided, as "ddossing" them is futile and simple stoops to their level.
2nd Update
Working on things now to help "mitigate" the problem, should be up within a few hours hopefully..
So, those that like traffic stats, the 1st attack which was when the server was running on 178.63.177.22 (the normal ip) with a ddoss of around 200-250Mbit/sec it did around 398GB inbound traffic before my host null'd the address.
The 2nd attack, which was 200-400Mbit/sec did around 730GB inbound traffic before my host null'd the address.. (178.63.177.25)
Needless to say my jaw is currently wtf.. - I do have plenty of bandwidth to spare but damn that is a chunk of traffic
3rd Update
To many updates -_-
After the changes last night and so forth ,we did get hit again server was a little choppy but recovered, I believe the attack lasted about 4 hours, and chewed through around 167.490GB in bandwidth..
Will be updating this post if it happens again with time/bandwidth chunks, though I locked down a trove of IP's that Paperclip provided myself which he did an amazing job on.
4th Update
It has been a interesting last couple of hours and stuff..
We got ddos'd again -_- - they were hitting with more traffic and stuff...
For the bandwidth stats they did "2,496.597GB" in around 10-12 hours.
Thanks;
Clakattack
So this morning I recieved multiple emails from my upstream host and my monitoring system informing things were offline.
It appears that the Battle Server has been attacked in a targeted DDOS multiple times, not sure if it still going on but at this stage my upstream host appears to have blocked all traffic to the box.. (either that or it has bsod).
For now, while I am investigating this issue it probably will remain offline however I will attempt to get it up as soon as possible.
I have noticed a large amount of gmod restarts as of late aka server crashing, I have hoped that folks would start to actually not crash the server but this will be also investigated.
Feel free to post comments etc, asking for IP's / attackers information will not be provided, as "ddossing" them is futile and simple stoops to their level.
***************EDIT***************
Added an Additional address & set it to the primary address. aka new ip address, not sure when host wil decide to allow traffic again for orig ip.. "178.63.177.25"
***********************************
Update
So, again last night (my time) the server was ddosd awesomely again.. this time it was double the traffic as last "yay", appears that they may have targeted the build server as well, however this time I won't be changing the server to another IP Address at this stage.
I will be contacting the providers of the IP's that attacked and hopefully getting them pulled / looked into and chasing up with my upstream on what the story is / how to reduce the damage.
Once again, asking for IP's / attackers information will not be provided, as "ddossing" them is futile and simple stoops to their level.
2nd Update
Working on things now to help "mitigate" the problem, should be up within a few hours hopefully..
So, those that like traffic stats, the 1st attack which was when the server was running on 178.63.177.22 (the normal ip) with a ddoss of around 200-250Mbit/sec it did around 398GB inbound traffic before my host null'd the address.
The 2nd attack, which was 200-400Mbit/sec did around 730GB inbound traffic before my host null'd the address.. (178.63.177.25)
Needless to say my jaw is currently wtf.. - I do have plenty of bandwidth to spare but damn that is a chunk of traffic
3rd Update
To many updates -_-
After the changes last night and so forth ,we did get hit again server was a little choppy but recovered, I believe the attack lasted about 4 hours, and chewed through around 167.490GB in bandwidth..
Will be updating this post if it happens again with time/bandwidth chunks, though I locked down a trove of IP's that Paperclip provided myself which he did an amazing job on.
4th Update
It has been a interesting last couple of hours and stuff..
We got ddos'd again -_- - they were hitting with more traffic and stuff...
For the bandwidth stats they did "2,496.597GB" in around 10-12 hours.
Thanks;
Clakattack
Known as Clakattack ... or "ClakofDeath" xD
Comments
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
Considering it it literally is targeting the server's orig IP then I would say its aimed at knocking Diaspora gmod community offline.. so sinister yea.. Still it is somewhat looked at nub move and a "I cant do anything better but flood your connection because i feel like it"
Clakattack
Perhaps the same reason why the forums were unresponsive for a few minutes a bit ago? Or perhaps that was something else.
EDIT: Considering that there are 43 guests currently online, maybe.
Not only does Paper Clip still exist, but he's as efficient as ever!
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
We have our suspicions, there is only "so many" things you can do in regards to ddos, and those that do ddos will be eventually caught and d/c or at least there stuff from the net that ddos.
Thanks;
Andrew
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
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