ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS

flyhmstr writes "According to a report on ISPReview Cloud Nine have been forced off line and out of business thanks to the actions of crackers deciding to go play with some DoS tools." It's only getting worse. The kids are getting more and more aggressive as time goes on and it gets easier and easier to launch a large scale DoS. As any techie knows, fixing the problem is far easier said then done... but as a frequent recipient of the sharp end of the DoS stick, I sure wish it wasn't an issue.

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whoops

[magicslax]

of course a nice healthy slashdotting right now doesn't help anybody's case. :grin:

WHAT!!

[BryceH]

but as a frequent recipient of the sharp end of the DoS stick, I sure wish it wasn't an issue

ha ha ha.. this comming from the kingpen of DOS .. no /. has never DOS-ed a site... really i swear..

I would make such an annoucement

[Florian Weimer]

if my business plans didn't work out.

(Read the final paragraphs of the announcement. Why do they stress that they are solvent?)

Re:which side of the law is our community on?

[(H)elix1]

Or in this case...

Programs don't kill servers, malformed packets kill servers.

Knock on their door

[CDWert]

We had a DOS issue once,
Kinda funny actually, poorly done, we tracked down who it was, Unknown to the dimwit on his dads T1 (at home his dad was playing hosting provider) The admin at his upstream was a friend of mice accross town, I called paul up and said hey what you trying to pull here, he chuckeled and said I know, I know, I just saw the traffic, you wanna know who it is, you want me to cut him off ?, I said nah, leave him up, I dont want him to know I know, My friend kindly gave me his name and address,

I showed up at around 3:30 since I figured it was they guys kid, and he should be out of school by then, I took a friend(witness along) I didnt want this punk saying I beat him up or anything. I had a cell phone in one hand and rang the bell with th other, he came to the door and I said, right now the Police number is on this phone, I am good friends with a detective there(true) now, you either pull the plug on your end or I press send and well see how long it takes for them to come and pull the plug permanetly, although I dont think you dad would be real happy, I thought this kid was going to wet his pants, Ive only seen somebody so scared a few times, he fell back over a chair in the foyer and took off ? I looked at my friend and it was all we could do to keep a srtaiht face.

He came back 20 seconds later and said its off, and the n stared to enquire about if I was going to tell his dad, I said no but Im sure the bill from your provider will, He was on a transfer pricing plan and this had been going on over 2 weeks while I was on vacation.

I have "Knoked on doors" twive one was a 2 hour drive but I had other business in that area , most certainly the most effective DOS stoppages Ive ever had.

Maybe we should form an allicance of Administrators geographically dispersed to start knocking on their doors, sort of an Administrators Militia , you knock on his in BFI and Ill knock for you when you need it. Police scare the shit out of most of these script kiddies, probably more the fear of knowing being arrested is not something easy to hide from the parents that pay for their computers and bandwidth.

Re:This can't be the whole story...

[3am]

yeah, but that was before the release of Windows XP. This would never have happened if raw socket access was unavailable!

This is not the first time!

[wackysootroom]

CP/M Was also forced out of business by DOS.