Welcome to Hell / Mysterious networking troubles on FreeBSD

[Jeff Mohler]

On Nov 24, 2007 2:08 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:

> Joel V. wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > A big thanks to everyone who contacted me. FreeBSD really has the best
> > community one could help for.
> >
> > Now, it has been confirmed by the backbone manager that we're dealing
> with a
> > DDOS attack. However, the ISP seems to be as clueless as a headless
> sheep,
> > and we haven't been able to contact their technical staff yet (of course
> one
> > can't be 100% sure that they even have a technical staff, judging by the
> > level of their response).
> >
> > Hopefully the situation will be fixed soon. One final question though:
> are
> > there any quick steps one can take to protect their server from DDOS
> attacks
> > like these?
>

Well..call the people responsible for the source IP, complain to them as
well.

www.onlinehome-server.com  is the provider.

Customer u15194704 is the problem computer.