Todays network solution sucks?

sneboldlol · December 8, 2015

Hey guys i got some friends who easily can ddos with just a little help from a website. and im just thinking why in the world is it so easy. why the fck can some numbers get abused so hard. isn't it time for a new solution cuz im scared of what they can do to me while im playing some league or something. -,-

Blebekblebek · December 8, 2015

unless you blatantly spreading your IP on public you'll be okay while gaming.

there's a lot protection actually, from entry level firewall to very high end enterprise grade level firewall.

what you see most on internet is because their own mistake.

sirtoby · December 8, 2015

Hey guys i got some friends who easily can ddos with just a little help from a website. and im just thinking why in the world is it so easy. why the fck can some numbers get abused so hard. isn't it time for a new solution cuz im scared of what they can do to me while im playing some league or something. -,-

Well, you should tell your friends that what they are doing is illegal as fuck. Just tell them that if they try and DDOS you, you'll have a nice chat with the FBI. They obviuosly don't think about the consequences, so give them some information on what happened to the Anonymus members who got caught DDOSing Paypal.

As long as they don't know your IP address, you'll be fine

Oshino Shinobu · December 8, 2015

This is why you hide your IP address. So that "hackers" (or people who think they're hackers because they know a website) can't do stuff like that.

If you're really worried, purchase a router or ISP service with DDoS protection. Most router's Firewall will drop the packets of a DDoS fairly quickly, especially if it's a simple DDoS that just sends packets as fast as possible.

manikyath · December 8, 2015

it is so easy because botnets are widely accessible if you know the right people, and because it is very hard to actually stop a DDoS attack.

a DDoS attack is on a packet per packet basis pretty much identical to legitimate traffic, and the only way to see what's legitimate and whats not is to use a glass ball over the entirety of traffic coming in.

that said, these days its usually not the servers themselves that hit the wall from a DDoS attack, but the switches in front of them, because the goal of a DDoS attack is to overload them.

if you have a home connection and get DDoSed, its not you that cuts out, its the entire neighborhood.

that said, as regular ordinary average joe, dont worry. seriously, its not worth the effort of going trough a DDoS protected VPN and all the toys, because its honestly not even worth for the guy at the other end to figure our your IP address.

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disclaimer: i'm talking about actual decently done attacks, not about a guy with google fiber that just sends packets.

LogicalDrm · December 8, 2015

DDoS of any kind is still illegal. Even when its just insert IP to a shady site. There both user and service provider are doing something illegal. One issuing DDoS and other providing tools to such. ISPs don't like those either. In the end, it costs them more than to you since it halts whole local hub and uses their service. Which obviously isn't free since you among others are paying for it. So if you are dead certain that you know someone who is doing such stupid thing. Call a police. Or your ISP. Then your friends will be ones that get scared.

Wombo · December 9, 2015

Hey guys i got some friends who easily can ddos with just a little help from a website. and im just thinking why in the world is it so easy. why the fck can some numbers get abused so hard. isn't it time for a new solution cuz im scared of what they can do to me while im playing some league or something. -,-

There are many solutions and I often implement quite a few.

It is easy just simply due to the volume of bandwidth you can create and the fact that internet backbones are in the terabit ranges.Get a few hundred hosts all spamming a single consumer broadband connection, not too hard to saturate that line.

As ISP's start to provide faster connections to residential customers they will start to care a bit more and more closely monitor their lines for suspicious traffic to hosts. As for right now, if your connection does down for 30 minutes because someone got your IP... meh, ISP can handle it, you can't.