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“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Post by reefoctopus »

morecoffee wrote: post #22
funkyy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am also surprised as this is not the first time I am reading about it on HN. Linode seems to be highly vulnerable to certain attacks as we could see in the past. I hope they will fix it and provide a permanent solution as I was hoping to use them as a part of my network, but I see more and more signals they can't handle serious traffic. Hopefully, they will redesign their infrastructure to handle it. I am with all…

Isn't the problem money? They could certainly fix it but would have to raise the prices on each VPS?

I'd be ok with paying twice what I'm currently paying if they could solve this problem. We're with Linode because it would cost us about 10x as much to run on AWS, and we can't justify that.

Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Post by ryanlol »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #28
ryanlol wrote: post #25

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If you live in 2002, nah. In 2016? Yes. Bandwidth is cheap and linode has high margins.

Infrastructure to service requests is not (comparitively). Rarely is it trivial to distinguish DDoS traffic from legitimate traffic.

Usually it is and according to linode it is so in this case too.

Edit: Not sure what alternate reality the downvoter lives in, but vast majority of the attacks these days are just "dumb" packet floods or even easier to filter reflection attacks. (Linode clarified this to be a mix of dns and ntp traffic on IRC)

But hey, go on and find me a layer 7 attack that'll take down entire datacenters :)

Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Post by sbarre »

edoceo wrote: post #30
julianz wrote: post #27

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I have a Linode VPS that is fantastically reliable. It's showing no downtime or problems during this DDOS. They've been great to deal with.

My box in ATL is just wicked slow, on the network. Looks like saturation to me. Got stuff in their other DCs which seems OK for now.

Are you sure it's not in Boston?

Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Post by jonahx »

Can anyone recommend a good article that explains how attacks like these work, and what is required to stop them?

Also, we're on Heroku and they advertise Ddos mitigation as a feature, but "mitigation" sounds non-commital and I'm curious how they'd fare against a similar attack?

Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

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Post by hakanensari »

reefoctopus wrote: post #31
morecoffee wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the problem money? They could certainly fix it but would have to raise the prices on each VPS?

I'd be ok with paying twice what I'm currently paying if they could solve this problem. We're with Linode because it would cost us about 10x as much to run on AWS, and we can't justify that.

They're price-matching DigitalOcean, so raising prices is probably out of the question.
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