Comments on: Whopper getting DOS’d (Not anymore!)

By: Bahamut

Bahamut — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:42:34 +0000

Thanks you dreamhost for the great work done. Dreamhost Rocks!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:14 +0000

The problem is that this is a Distributed attack, so it’s much more difficult to block. Instead of all the requests emanating from a few nefarious IP addresses, they come from many many seemingly random IPs. Even though there are of course repeats, it’s not as simple as a single line in the htaccess file.

Check and see if your logs are bigger than normal. If so, you’ll probably be able to see at least a few of these in your error log.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:34:03 +0000

Since we have some techies here that seem familiar with DOS attacks, I’m wondering, what’s the most “foolproof” method of stopping them at the source? Seems to me in my completely perfect world that there should be some way that a server can spot an attack and dump a single targeted IP – if that’s the case – automatically. What do companies that no doubt get many more attacks – Microsoft or Yahoo or something tempting – do to counter the attacks, and can Dreamhost implement something similar, or is that super high-tech and not cost efficient. I’m asking because it seems like Dreamhost could save some money (and some headaches) by implementing something like this, if possible.

By: RuFo

RuFo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:16:38 +0000

Whoper is down again?
Now I can’t access to my blog…

By: Unity

Unity — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:20:17 +0000

Guys, are you still getting Dos’d here?

This is the fifth weekday out of the last seven that the server’s bugged out at around the same time of day – about 4pm over here (UK), which means about 8am PST.

This is all looking a bit uncoincidental to say the least and it’s all getting a bit frustrating as I’ve got a new project due to launch in about a week’s time and need to be sure that everything’s not going to be falling over every 24 hours before I go live.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:06:49 +0000

glad its fixed

By: Yhiru

Yhiru — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:31:52 +0000

My site is on slice and its not working atm

By: bob

bob — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:04:07 +0000

Well my website is on lifesaver and my site was hacked today.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:15:52 +0000

I know “Fanta” isn’t listed but is anyone else having FTP issues? It gets to the password stage and then times out.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:09:56 +0000

Ditto on Dr. Pepper. The kicker is that I’m hosting a project that’s holding a vote on some project matters today…rawr.