Just explain to us how you would avoid being DDoS'd ? My server has been attacked 2 times now and all I could do was to wait until the packetting stopped while tracing the attacks. Just remember that many IRC servers including mine run on a public school's machine on a connection that is merely lended. When all the network gets hit because of kiddies attacking the irc server I have to justify the usefullness of my server to keep it running and it's NOT EASY !! Besides, we restricted connections on the server and allowed local users only and we still get DDoS'd ! It is absolutely pointless yet kiddies continue. And to mention it there are hundreds of trojans who are trying to connect to the server, consuming bandwith for nothing.
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Just explain to us how you would avoid being DDoS'd ? My server has been attacked 2 times now and all I could do was to wait until the packetting stopped while tracing the attacks.
Just remember that many IRC servers including mine run on a public school's machine on a connection that is merely lended. When all the network gets hit because of kiddies attacking the irc server I have to justify the usefullness of my server to keep it running and it's NOT EASY !!
Besides, we restricted connections on the server and allowed local users only and we still get DDoS'd ! It is absolutely pointless yet kiddies continue.
And to mention it there are hundreds of trojans who are trying to connect to the server, consuming bandwith for nothing.
Nidhogg, IrcOp & admin on irc.emn.fr