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**-RanZ-** · August 30th, 2004, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Isfahan

Isnt there a permanent way to stop these DdoS or whatever attacks?

Isfahan.

You can usally set routers to ignore pings or allow 1, there are ways of preventing them, I dont know exactly what equipment surpass runs or what there setup is but I know there are measures you can take to prrevent DDoS attacks

**mobius** · August 30th, 2004, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by RanZom

You can usally set routers to ignore pings or allow 1, there are ways of preventing them, I dont know exactly what equipment surpass runs or what there setup is but I know there are measures you can take to prrevent DDoS attacks

If i remember correctly, they set up equipment not to long ago to protect against this sort of thing

**Bigjohn** · August 30th, 2004, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mobius

If i remember correctly, they set up equipment not to long ago to protect against this sort of thing

they did. I'm pretty sure what happened here is that their BGP routing did not work properly.

BGP routing allows you to have multiple paths into a data center. When one slows down or fails, you're supposed to automatically spread the load...

The load did not get spread... but it seems to be working fine now - I'm actually 4 hops closer on this route than on the old one.

John

donzeigler · August 30th, 2004, 11:32 AM

The question, then, is why isn't it working?

donzeigler · August 30th, 2004, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by AJPayne

Are you guyz talking about downtime... again?

No offense but this is the xillionth thread about it. They appologized, they wrote a whole post about it and they gave us a free whole month free for compensation. So I don't think bringing up this issue again and again would do anything...

Either you don't sell hosting or you don't care about the impact these outages have on your reputation and pocketbook. A month's free hosting does not begin to compensate me for the ill will generated among my clients. And frankly the DDoS attack explanation isn't satisfactory. When I was with Total Choice Hosting they were DDoSed all the time, and we users NEVER saw extended downtime due to an attack. Fifteen minutes, tops.

**Bigjohn** · August 30th, 2004, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by donzeigler

The question, then, is why isn't it working?

I'd like to know that myself.

I'm guessing a blip in the router config.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because it is a new datacenter. Lots of stuff is being tweeked. Pingtimes are down from what they were in April, so I know they're tuning the network.

John

**Isfahan** · August 30th, 2004, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by djsckizo

Yes...assassinating hackers...but that would be bad.

If hackers are doing this, why are they pointing toward Surpass?

Isfahan.

**Bigjohn** · August 30th, 2004, 1:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Isfahan

If hackers are doing this, why are they pointing toward Surpass?

Isfahan.

They're not targeting surpass, I'm sure. They're targeting a site that is hosted by surpass....

John

**David** · August 30th, 2004, 1:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Isfahan

If hackers are doing this, why are they pointing toward Surpass?

Isfahan.

Why do they do anything they do?

I mean the malicious ones who do stupid things like this.

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