DDoSing Hell!

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BigJay

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Hello, I currently am a part of a gaming community (which will remain unnamed for now) and we have some serious issues.

Our server competition didn't like the fact that our server was beating them with players online and simply in general, and decided to flood us with DDoS.

We've been receiving something like 13 gb/s incoming traffic and we've been tearing our hair out of our skull trying to defend it.

We've already been through around 700$ of donation money trying to solve this issue, and can't find any sure way to defend ourselves from these attacks.

Our player-base is slowly on the decline, and we can't go a day without being DDoSed around 5 times.

Some of the hosts we've been through..

Staminus (Currently)
DotBlock,
Limestone Networks

People have suggested things nothing we've been told to use have worked, what the heck can we do about this?

Also, in regards of legal action, none of us are willing to follow through and press charges on something as trivial as DDoSing and don't feel like going through a process and wasting our own money on legal representation.
 
BigJay said:
Hello, I currently am a part of a gaming community (which will remain unnamed for now) and we have some serious issues.

Our server competition didn't like the fact that our server was beating them with players online and simply in general, and decided to flood us with DDoS.

We've been receiving something like 13 gb/s incoming traffic and we've been tearing our hair out of our skull trying to defend it.

We've already been through around 700$ of donation money trying to solve this issue, and can't find any sure way to defend ourselves from these attacks.

Our player-base is slowly on the decline, and we can't go a day without being DDoSed around 5 times.

Some of the hosts we've been through..

Staminus (Currently)
DotBlock,
Limestone Networks

People have suggested things nothing we've been told to use have worked, what the heck can we do about this?

Also, in regards of legal action, none of us are willing to follow through and press charges on something as trivial as DDoSing and don't feel like going through a process and wasting our own money on legal representation.
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If you can prove it is them then the legal costs will be cheaper then playing defense. You will also make an example of them and discourage anyone else from attacking you.
 
13gbps is quite an attack :o.

Wish you the best of luck migrating the attack. With regards to costs may be seek out to your player base for some donations / support? I would look into legal action also, it does seem unless you can stop them they won't stop themselves until your player base is next to nothing.

Or you could look into a DDoS specialist? http://www.blacklotus.net/host/dedicated-servers seems to offer solutions up to 10gbps so may be speak with them and get a deal for something higher?
 
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Jay,

Can you narrow down if it's coming from the same IP? Basically he is taking whatever port your game is running off of and is connecting to it over and over. If you can supply the IP address to the data center your server is being hosted at, they possibly could send that address to a black hole. Now, if they are using a proxy server it's a bit more difficult.
 
SolidShellSecur said:
If you can prove it is them then the legal costs will be cheaper then playing defense. You will also make an example of them and discourage anyone else from attacking you.
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That was my first thought as well. Are you only assuming they are behind it or do you have concrete hard proof of it? It is not in the best interest of your own company to run off and slander another company unless you have the proof and proper routes should be taken (not just reporting on other forums as it would point to slander w/o the proof).
 
$700 is a lot. I wish you had spent it on a good firewall or some DDoS company to monitor your site and set up the necessary firewall configurations if you are not able to do so manually. Also like the above poster mentioned, if you have enough proof to prove that it infact IS your competition that is responsible for the attack then go along with the legal pursuit.
 
Is your game server under attack or your website? If it's just your website, you could ask your provider to block UDP by ACLs at the upstream. If it's your game server, well, then you're going to need a good protection. I can recommend JavaPipe. Other than that there are various providers out there you could contact about this.
 
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