John R. Dennison wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:19:37AM -0400, Bill Balcerski wrote: > >> Hi all. Over the past few months, netrek servers I run have come >> under a distributed denial of service attack that has been pretty >> constant and insistent. Initially the attacks started out as mass >> flood connects from a few IPs, but after some measures were put into >> place to prevent that, the attacks morphed into hundreds and thousands >> of unique IPs connecting to the server in spaced out intervals so that >> unique IPs occupy every slot. The slots sit at the login screen, >> preventing players from connecting. This sort of attack, while >> currently only directed at me (first at sturgeon, then at my bronco >> server when I took sturgeon off the metaserver) can be used to knock >> any netrek server out. With so few servers and server operators, I >> really think this needs to be addressed. Quozl had put some things on >> the todo list regarding this, namely some sort of handshake between >> client and server, but this is really out of my league to implement. >> So I am asking of the dev community, if you can contribute code to >> deal with this security hole, please do so. >> > Perhaps you shouldn't have pissed off so many people over the > past few years by your behavior. It is completely evident that > this is personal; no other servers have been attacked except > for yours. > > *shrug*. > Whether he pissed people off or not - it seems rather rude (if not criminal) to smack his server around. I would hope whoever was involved would find something more constructive and mature to do with their talent and time. Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark at mielke.cc>