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by scurvy 13y ago
I was suggesting ways to prevent being part of the DDoS, not protect yourself from the DDoS. In other words, lock down your hosts so that they don't participate in the attack.
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by scurvy 13y ago
There are services like Prolexic and Defense.net that you advertise your routes to, then they send you clean traffic. Providers won't care if you asked for the traffic or not. You'll get billed. They won't put in an ACL. Not
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by scurvy 13y ago
It's not pre-paid only. You can get it month to month if you buy the SIM starter kit and activate online. You can't get it in T-Mo stores.
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by scurvy 13y ago
It's trivial to add a UDP policer to ntp traffic to your ntp hosts. Also, how many people are exposing NTP externally on the same IP's they're running regular content (http/https) on? If you're allowing UDP/123
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by scurvy 13y ago
Less buggy, more "Could be broken by idiotic Cloudflare automation engineers."
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by scurvy 13y ago
Really? How many transit providers today will enter custom ACLs for customers? Almost none of them will do this. The only time they will is when it's disrupting the rest of their network and other customers are complaining. Level3 was
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by scurvy 13y ago
It's not absolutely slower in SF than Verizon. It's absolutely faster. I switched from 3-5 mbps Verizon service to 30 mbps T-Mobile service. Sounds like an iPhone problem to me.
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by scurvy 13y ago
defense.net and Prolexic come to mind before Black Lotus or CloudFlare. Black Lotus and CloudFlare are bottom of the bucket options compared to defense and Prolexic. Keep in mind that Prolexic was recently acquired by Akamai, so prices will
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by scurvy 13y ago
Perhaps the developers communicated with their netops teams before designing the game protocols? Maybe they came to the conclusion that it's better to run TCP from a security/DDoS perspective than UDP? In other words, the ability
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by scurvy 14y ago
Most energy consumption in the US goes towards heating and cooling, not illumination. Making your house more energy efficient starts with your windows and doors, not your lightbulbs.