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Colocrossing buy a new site secretively?
https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530
http://status.linode.com/incidents/mmdbljlglnfd
Edit: ah didn't see it was already posted
Network Engineer at Linode
I hope a lot of providers start to think about current problems in new year with DDoS attacks, and how mitigate them...
Alex Forster should recognize:
So... what about this??? ¬_¬
Well he retweeted it recently
For those of you looking for DDOS protection against your site, you can simply use a service like CloudFlare as a proxy. They have robust DDOS protection, and you're even assigned a CloudFlare IP that masks your real IP. I've yet to suffer from an attack since doing so. There's probably other such companies, but I've never looked into them.
The current issues at Linode are targeted directly at their upstream provider which is outside of your/their control. Also, if the physical server, in which your virtual server is hosted on, is under attack, there's nothing you can do about that either, which is why they probably don't offer a subscription based option for individual protection. It's up to them to fix it at the physical server level.
Today's outage has lasted for 9 hours so far!
Hats off to their team. I doubt they're sitting over there right now refusing to spend money on it, whatever is going on is spread enough that there's no one quick way out for them obviously. I hate that they had to spend their holiday dealing with this.
Pathetic competitor I'm sure. I had to move my machine that was up 189+ days on 8001 (NAC MMU)
Pissed some little shit(s) are spending the holiday on this.
Same. Perhaps they'll invest in DDoS mitigation hardware though.
linode deadpooled?
no, they are very old company with agressive adversting, and a lot of clients.
Linode has to get a calendar. Not first time they had DDOS outages. Been many years of problems. Good company, but DDOS protect is necessary or some means of dealing with this gracefully (automated nulls). Leadership issue and lack of invest is going to erode their customers.
HTTPS slowly became Internet standard, why DDOS protection can't? I hope we get DDOS protection as a standard, not premium features on all webhosting.
Our Ecommerce website with Linode had like 1 hour of downtime. I mentioned to move the website to the pony.
Bad thing is that I don't see a 2 gb option with ssd and add a plus for ssd . Also we eat less than 150GB/mo while pony's come with 10 TB which would be an overkill.
I do like Francisco's products BTW
It's on the high volume table under the main ones
Francisco
Because it's expensive, specially for small ISPs and regions where bandwidth is not cheap.
CloudFlare is clearly doing a good job when I try to help someone on LET with a PHP code snippet and get blocked for it
CF Web Application Firewall = complete garbage
Linode run its own network or they are mostly rely on softlayer network?
No.
These attacks aren't directed to some site of us, but to someone else or directly to Linode.
Having cloudflare in our site doesn't help at all.
That's a pretty shit situation to be in.
Cloudflare can only filter the traffic to domain but if IP are attacked directly on the node then cloudflare cannot do anything.
It is too bad it did not work. They went back online and down an hour later. It is not looking good with well over 24 hours of downtown plus a lot more over the past 7 days.
But their new posts says they have new connection and will have "DDoS mitigation hardening".
Yea, was shaking my head at the cloudflare comment. Also someone talking about cpanel.
I wonder if it's because of the spammer gang that's been lighting them up on spamhaus?
https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/linode.com
They had a mass clear out just the other day of probably 20+ listings as well, all ROKSO's, so it looks like the gang's either rooting or abusing credits/etc.
It would make sense for them to start eating packets if they started suspending/nuking the accounts.
Francisco
Seems like Linode Atlanta is now using Level3 instead of Zayo, an unexpected change to many I assume. They also seem to be entirely droping ICMP for IPv4 traffic.
Level 3 bought out Black Lotus and offers in-house filtering. Makes sense that Linode would give that a try.
Maybe they are, but I guess they have other "enemies" and competitors around.
PS: I was waiting to see some rumours about the attackers or something, but never read anything except your idea. Not having any is not funny, lol.
They're now blocking everything except Western Europe and North America. El Reg has a good article.
Pleased that Linode seem to be getting sorted now. Maybe the team will get their Christmas and New year breaks now!