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The days of reflection amplification attack are long gone, it's safe to use chrony as I do on many other exposed nodes. Singapore or Japan are handling 100k requests per second without issue which happen to run on Leaseweb servers through HostDzire. The problem is clearly only in India location. My theory is incompetent cybercrime police department that sees my IP in logs of a seized PCs and simply issues standard complain letter to the provider.
My theory is incompetent cybercrime police department that sees my IP in logs of a seized PC and simply issues standard complain letter to the provider. NTP is such simple service that I can't think of other way how it can happen.
But your servers IP should come after a DNS lookup for public NTP server. Would it reverse DNS to something NTPish?
This haunted me, will i be next?
Dont worry, no one suspend service without any reason.
I got @jnd details using PM and also replied using PM, even in old ticket we had replied the details/proof to him.
He never asked refund, so we never provided refund.
@jnd Please confirm that we did shared you complain copy + you never asked refund so we didnt provided, because you had co-operated with so we did provided you all the details you needed.
Yeah, that makes sense. It's possible they're sending strong word letters without concrete lead.
I was contemplating to buy HostDzire India location and VeloxMedia 😅
@HostDZire Are you from India?
Weird law of India. KYC is required even if you do not have server in India but you are providing service to Indian customer.
How they will apply this rule to foreign company.
The government of India itself doesn't trust its citizen.
Really makes you think. Perhaps Sanjay Gandhi was right
What did he say?
Something along crime is caused by too many people, not unemployment. Afterall, criminals is a job for some.
I confirm I got the details in the PM. It may be from the first earlier suspension though. I hope will get it resolved through PMs or tickets, then I will provide update here.
Funny people defending the KYC request when hostdzire hasn't even shared the complaint to OP. Can't email it to them? Does their passport have an email address on it to confirm? Get tf outta here 😂
Hello,
Although i have sent you details using PM, but since you have replied here so i have reply here as well.
In your case this how it happened:
When we got 1st complain, we opened ticket in your asked and asked about the uses details, #021053 is the ticket.
We got no reply so in same ticket after few days we suspended the vps.
Then in same ticket you replied. and said you using it for ntp pool.
We asked you to do the KYC,
After KYC was done we replied you about complain and asked you to reinstall the VPS.
You agreed, so we unsuspended, this ticket later was Auto Closed For Inactivity.
Last reply: 7th July 2025
But important thing to notice is you didnt reinstall the VPS after backup or looking which we had asked you.
So,
After that we got another complain about your vps on Oct 2025
So this time we suspended all 4 Indian Cloud Vps you had with HostDZire, you had other locations vps as well with us, we didnt suspend that.
This time you made ticket on 14th Nov and asked about suspension.
We replied you that we got another complain about your vps that is why we suspended it.
And also said we cant bring your vps online anymore. after that no reply came regarding refund or anything like that, and later ticket was closed again for Inactivity.
Just becase we recieved another complain later,
We had to suspend all your indian cloud vps to prevent any further misuses. even this time we kept other location vps active.
And since the 2nd suspension, no new complain came till now.
And since you had not replied, vps is still in your account and suspended,
We have not cancelled the vps because its paid till mid 2026.
If you had asked for refund in ticket, We would have provided, but its 100% sure this time we would not have unsuspended the vps.
@jnd
Since i cant share senstive data here, but i have shared you some proof using PM.
Please confirm here that we have provided you proof for another complain copy which came after few month due to which we had suspended your vps again.
If you need refund for remaining days, you are welcome to ask using ticket, we will send you refund.
If you have any futher question ask using ticket,
I think i have provided enough data here in public.
Thank you for co-operation.
Sounds about right. The whole system is perfunctory by design.
Received a phishing email? Ban the email provider.
Financial fraud? Freeze all bank accounts that ever sent or received money from the suspected account.
Outdated versions of an app used as an attack vector?Ban the app website.
Copyright complaint? Ban the entire platform.
3 tiers of complaint handling:
👑: Here is an abuse report we're forwarding to you: (Don't make this become a pattern)
➖: We've suspended all your services and terminated your account because of this abuse report:
💩: Hello sir, to see the abuse report we received please KYC and prove your innocence because we can't email it to you. BTW your services are suspended.
Sorry, I know I'm asking a tall request.
Could you share to the abuse rate (involving authorities) in India location? If you don't want to share the nominal value, how does it compare to your other locations?
Abuse rate is low, Like 1-2 abuse each month, but complain comes mostly for cybercrime.
Thank you for sharing 👍. That's not unusual number
Very detailed and honest reply with proof.
+1 for that.
This is why we use Bitcoin and Tor as much as possible
Is there a summary version? What exactly ran on the server
No one knows. The OP doesn't want to do KYC and I think he's just whining to get a chance to backup data from the suspended vps or delete everything incriminating on it.
I can confirm that I received redacted document that asks for info about specific IP address for a specific short timespan. No evidence of wrongdoing.
I can also confirm that I didn't reinstall the VPS as agreed because I did thorough investigation of server logs and found no evidence of any malicious activity, which I reported in the ticket. The same ntp service running (chrony) was still there and nothing extra. Yeah my bad that I wanted to save time with reinstalling to the same config as before. I still maintain I did nothing wrong or illegal there, the same setup runs on dozen VPS around the world and only India had ever such issues.
So that's why I think it reflects the poorly on the work of the cyberpolice and perhaps also the overly proactive providers that interpret ip info request as task to shutdown the servers. The first time it happened I was accused that I provided fake info in the account (I did not) and that I'm from India (also I'm not) as pretext to do KYC. Second time I was asked for KYC again even if I did it already, which I didn't understand.
Also as I wrote you in PM it's confusing to have all services suspended without possibility to unsuspend but not cancelled with automatic refund since I can't use it anyway.
Another thing you notice is I'm slow to reply here or to the tickets since I run this service as a volunteer in my limited free time. I don't get paid for it, rather the opposite I contribute both my time and money to offer some public service instead of idling the servers and in exchange I gain a little experience with real world stuff.
In the end I opened ticket asking for refund and will end my attempt to help in underserved India zone. I'll choose another region where it's more appreciated like Vietnam, I got nice feedback from a local guy helping me get good deals.
That really seems to be the case. The good thing is they can't ban NTP servers globally (well they can but would be stupid), so users from India will fetch time from other servers in Asia but the police won't send complaints or user info requests there.
Thank you
Merry Christmas
So, the likely chance is fraudulent report made by business competitors, or even the police themselves as they might be chasing some KPI nation-wide as chasing real criminals is much harder
Nah if never happened before
Complaint were always real, and 2 diff diff State Cyber crime police won't send you fake complain.
I am sure his vps was compromised, I am not blaming he did it but it's sure that inside vps had something which caused it.
Anyways it's not my job to question to cyber crime department that where they saw the ip and details about it.
I came to this thread hoping for some good drama like the Velox thread... I was disappointed.