Hi! I wonder what your policy is with regard to incoming DDoS network attacks? Will you try to filter the traffic based on heuristics, or just null route the affected dest IP(s)? What happens to my network traffic bill when somebody launches a DNS amplication attack against my VPS? Cheers!

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DDoS counter policy & measures

Posted on April 13, 2013

By gwillem

Hi! I wonder what your policy is with regard to incoming DDoS network attacks?

Will you try to filter the traffic based on heuristics, or just null route the affected dest IP(s)?
What happens to my network traffic bill when somebody launches a DNS amplication attack against my VPS?

Cheers!

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cacivio

July 20, 2017

Apologize I went back to attack before I finished doing my backup are two ip I want to block them in the firewall but I do not find where 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:35 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:36 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.25 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:36 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:37 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.25 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:37 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.25 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:38 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:38 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:39 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.25 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:39 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.27 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:40 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” 185.188.204.25 - - [19/Jul/2017:20:09:40 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 499 0 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)”