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They must be great, my servers are constantly receiving hack attempts from Digital Ocean IPs.
by JakeAl 6y ago
They must be great, my servers are constantly receiving hack attempts from Digital Ocean IPs.
- SteveNuts 6y agoDoes this mean that previously to this change, without a software firewall running you'd be vulnerable to attacks on the private network from other customers? (I've never used DO).
- faster 6y agoYes, on both Digital Ocean and its 'brother from another mother' Linode. I have a client with a few Linode VPSs and their biggest attacks by far come from the 'private' network.
- kitotik 6y agoYes. They also will automatically enable a private network interface for you if you use their Floating IP feature. This caught me by surprise when I found out the hard way :)
- riffic 6y agoThat suspiciously sounds like an anchor IP address and not an actual private network interface: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/floating-ips/ https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/floating-ips/
- kitotik 6y agoAhh you are completely correct. It caused issues for me as it added a new interface that my firewalls knew nothing about.
- jkarneges 6y agoNo. The private network was originally shared across all accounts, but later on they changed it to be isolated per account. It's been that way for a couple of years. The introduction of VPC just means you can isolate within the same account.
- dghughes 6y agoTexts too with phishing urls in them trace the IPs you find they are digital ocean VMs. The worst part is here in Canada we have to pay for incoming texts.
- wolco 6y agoWhat plan/provider requires you to pay for incoming texts?
- unixhero 6y agoSounds like you are on a pre-pay plan?
- dghughes 6y agoJust a regular monthly plan. Some plans will claim it's an "unlimited texting plan" but really the charges are still there hidden. Maybe the provider has an agreement with other mobile phone providers to reimburse them for texts their customers send. My last provider refunded the cost if I forwarded the message to their spam department text number. We have pretty terrible mobile phone plans and rules here in Canada.
- ajayyy 6y agoI live in Canada (Ontario) and have never heard of any plan doing something like this. I am on prepaid myself and have unlimited texting.
- dghughes 6y agoThat sounds very generous for a pre-paid plan. Is it unlimited for all incoming phone numbers or do you choose specific phone numbers? I've seen plans that you choose friends or pay more but in some way you are paying more for the free part a bit like insurance. Maybe plans with unlimited texting versus regular plans are more common so the extra cost is seen as normal? Hopefully it's changing or maybe texting is becoming less of a thing due to more mobile Internet access.