DDos Attack
By Jason on Friday, 11 July 2014
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Hi I just wondered if anyone else has ever experienced a ddos attack on their websites?

Its not the first time this has happened to me which I find interesting, I assumed such things only happen to websites which are actually up and running, not some little scratch of a development but I suppose if someone has a bee in their bonnet with me for some reason I guess trying to piss me off is only natural although admittedly irritating.

I don't know whether to feel honored that someone would be bothered enough to try and sabotage my work or just outraged by the inconvenience of someone stealing my wheels so to speak before I've even begun peddling

So if anyone would like to enlighten me regarding such things I'd be interested to hear.

thanks:)
Hello Jason,

We recently got hit on our site too and what I normally do is to route these "ip" addresses to a black hole (127.0.0.1). Yep, this way, reduces the overhead that is consumed by your webserver.
Mark
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Friday, 11 July 2014 23:15
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Is there anything such as a registry or website that lists known "bad" ip addresses against which one could proactively route to a "black hole"?
Kevin
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Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:36
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hey eileen,
there are quite a number of sites and services that do this but the 2 probably most known would be akismet http://akismet.com and project honeypot https://www.projecthoneypot.org

hope that helps and have a nice day
Alex
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Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:44
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I didn't know about the second reference but have actually used akismet. I thought the original poster was referring to an attack not directed at comments etc. but something else....thank you.
Kevin
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Monday, 14 July 2014 06:31
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I don't think either of these services could stop a DDOS attack because DDOS attacks are mostly done on the network layer. A very quick way to counter this is to route these ip addresses to a black hold
Mark
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Monday, 14 July 2014 10:53
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