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Linode Under DDoS Since Christmas (linode.com)
hol writes: Linode has been getting hit with DDoS attacks since Christmas Day, and it looks like their pain is set to continue. The attackers are rotating DDoS traffic through various regions of Linode's service. They say, "All of these attacks have occurred multiple times. Over the course of the last week, we have seen over 30 attacks of significant duration and impact. As we have found ways to mitigate these attacks, the vectors used inevitably change. As of this afternoon, we have mostly hardened ourselves against the above attack vectors, but we expect more to come. ... Once these attacks stop, we plan to share a complete technical explanation about what has been happening." See their status page for updates.
While systemd needs no introduction, I do want to state that the one thing I will fight against for all my days is the practice of obdurate, insufferable drazels to create a beastly world of guilt and shame. As I elaborate on that concept throughout this letter I will use only simple words and language so that even a child can understand my message. Yes, even a child should know that to someone whose eyes are open, systemd's constantly repeated mantra that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength is an insanely pugnacious notion. By way of contrast, consider my personal mantra that systemd says that it has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature. That's its unvarying story, and it's a lie: an extremely homicidal and uncouth lie. Unfortunately, it's a lie that is accepted unquestioningly, uncritically, by systemd's lapdogs.
Mark my words: there are two challenges we must face if we wish to repair the piteous world we have inherited from systemd. The first challenge is to maintain the great principles of virtue, truth, right, and honor. This is only slightly less difficult than the second challenge, which is to convey to people the knowledge that systemd's camorra is not a civil debating society. It is not interested in new ideas. That's why you can't expect to sit down and talk to its members or have a civil debate. The best you can do is try to tell them that systemd gets particularly concerned whenever someone indicates that its primary source of amusement is to visit misery and havoc upon countless millions. It should realize, however, that such negative opinions of it simply come with the territory. Rather than try to suppress the unflattering things people say about it, systemd would do well to consider that it has a strategy. Its strategy is to incite young people to copulate early, often, and indiscriminately. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with systemd.
The most malignant mooncalves I've ever seen are somehow fascinated by systemd's disorderly diablerie, just as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Unfortunately for such people, systemd is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, it frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to herd us through a tunnel of sesquipedalianism. Systemd is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens build a working consensus to tackle big problems. Responsible citizens clearly do not create a global workers plantation overseen by transnational corporations who have no more concern for the human rights of those who produce their products or services than systemd has for its yeomen. Imagine people everywhere embracing systemd's claim that “metanarratives” are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. The idea defies the imagination.
Do we not, as rational men and women, owe it to both our heritage and our posterity to pull back the curtains on systemd's warnings and show them for what they really are? I personally think we do. To systemd's mind, little green men live on Mars. So that means that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible, right? No, not right. The truth is that systemd is still going around insisting that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever its institutional interests are at stake. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to it that it feels that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. Sounds rather aberrant, doesn't it? Well, that's systemd for you.
In an atmosphere of false rumors and misinformation, branding me as gruesome is a mug's game. The only reason it does things like that is because it plans to destroy the lives of good, honest people. It has instructed its co-conspirators not to discuss this or even admit to its plan's existence. Obviously, systemd knows it has something to hide. Systemd likes thinking thoughts th
LInode is a terrible host that's faked several hacks in the past to steal their customers bitcoins. Nothing of value was lost.
WTF is "Linode"?
As one of their customers, I haven't noticed a thing. My instances keep on chugging along as if nothing is wrong.
status page has been slashdotted...
The most interesting question that these kinds of news articles never describe is intent. WHY are they attacking Linode? These attacks cost money. People don't do them for fun anymore.
I understand that some people don't want to give the attackers more attention but that's the most interesting part. Honestly, maybe the attackers have a point? Who knows? You'll never know unless you discuss it.
Okay, I'm probably a jerk, but I don't care and I hope their upstream(s) isn't/aren't helpful.
I'm a happy Linode customer, but when one of my customers was being targeted by a DDoS extortion scheme which was using a very specific, very blockable attack, Linode's only solution/suggestion was to boot the customer, or wait it out, and in the meantime, they nullrouted my IP. Now I get that nullrouting my IP keeps the rest of the customers in that subnet/node/etc online, but it frustrated me that they wouldn't even attempt to block selectively, and as such, I can't get a ton of sympathy when they're victims of similar attacks.
And for the record, my customer didn't pay, eventually the DDoS group got bored and moved on.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...
good, we had to wall off their entire IP space due to attacks and probes from their network, fired off an email to abuse@ and they basically said "suck it up, tough shit", they dont care, who exactly do you think their customers are ? it certainly isn't any reputable businesses hence the karma when you attack someone who has the resources to fuck em up.
RTFA?
(DDoS + Slashdot effect > DDoS)
this is why we cant have nice things!!!
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Going forward, on weekends Slashdot will have an entire thread reserved for
"businesses that are experiencing a DDOS, virus, malware, infection, or someone
just called in sick without a lot of head's up to the boss."
That way nobody will say "Hey wait, Linode isn't news" or "Why is it such a big
deal" because lots of companies will be listed here.
Stay tuned for the "Virus of the week" award winners. Next up, a crossover show
with KUWTK where Kiley Jenner starts up a VM instance but then there's like a DDOS
and her makeup is not complete and Tyga and *yawn*.
Uh... Three questions.
1. Who is Linode?
2. Why should I care that they are getting DDOSed?
3. How is this news?
Christmas under ddos attack from Muslims.
The Slashdot effect... is not what it used to be.
this is a good example of how to get an advertisement onto the screen of someone who uses an adblocker.
lose != loose
When throughout the whole Linode house, all was peaceful and nothing stirred, not even a disk overflow alarm . . .
When suddenly there was a big blizzard of bits flowing in from all directions of the universe!
With a loud clatter and a loud hiss!
The massive shower of bits and bytes, like the Niagra falls, fell upon the little Linode House! And the NOC awoke with a shatter!
"Gandy! Rudolf! Silence the alarms! What is going on!": Santa, the NOC lead engineer cried.
And then a soft melody could be faintly heard through the clatter. A choir of carolers singing outside the Linode data center's massive security gates . . .
Silent Night
Traffic is Light
We don't see any thing here but blowing snowflakes
To us, all this Internet data is about as worthless as the snowflakes on Christmas Eve!
We the great Choir of Anonymous must sing to all the children of the Inernet!
Put down your mice and drop your tablets! Come and sing with us on this Christmas Eve!
Most Respectfully Yours Mrs. Cleara Plastique
"Linode has been getting hit with DDoS attacks since Christmas Day"
you could have written
"The virtual private server provider Linode has been getting hit with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since Christmas Day"
Given Linode's little habits of allowing internally hosted malware to propagate among client systems without telling *anyone*, their tendency for hardware to fail and take your VM with it, and their tendency to wildly oversubscribe their hardware with lots of "dynamically allocated" disk and memory that suffer "balloon payments" when under load that overwhelm Linode's ability to keep caught up with their resource management, how could anyone even *notice* a DDOS there?
It looks like the only ways to mitigate against DDoS is to have upstream get involved and sinkhole the attack traffic. They have the bandwidth to take it and not feel a thing. Yet for some reason "wait it out" is the strategy right now, like it's 1990.
I've got to wonder if BBC's issues are related to Linode being hit, or if BBC is the target and Linode is suffering for it?
I've seen BBC have issues in the past, but never as bad and for as long as since Christmas.
As recently as a minute ago I couldn't get a page to load.
Self proclaimed nerds don't know the business that brought vps to the masses? Really? Doesn't sound like any nerds actually read this website anymore. It's all a bunch of microshit shills and whoever DICE is paying to push up the comment count. Fuck this website.
Long time linode user, I have two and have been extremely happy with them. Awesome support and community, periodic big free upgrades, continuously improving and adding services. Now you can create a cluster temporarily or ramp up a server and then turn it off, paying just for what you use, it is amazing and the most fun and value I've had. If you want to have your own server just get a linode. As for the ddos, I felt nothing in the two cities I have linodes.