Well, changing the IP address might provide "temporary" relief from a denial of service attack. But, if your servers are being specifically targeted, then sooner or later whoever is doing that is going to notice and look-up your servers new IP address and start hitting that.
Of course, if its not just your server being attacked but perhaps an entire block of IP addressed that your server happens to be part of (perhaps because somebody has a grudge against your hosting provider), then changing to another IP address from that same hosting provider might not help at all. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Nomaan Ahmad <n0man....@gmail.com> wrote: > It's very easy to find out the IP even if its not publicly shown. An > example would be joining your server with wireshark running. > > > On 15 February 2014 18:48, Mike Vail <supp...@boomgaming.net> wrote: > >> So this week for the first time since I started running Valve servers >> almost 10 years ago, I began getting ddos attacked on one of my servers. >> The datacenter null-routed the IP, which is typical in these cases. I don't >> have advanced firewall protection right now other than Windows 2008 >> Firewall so I'm kinda stuck. I don't even know the nature of the attack >> because the datacenter isn't helpful at all. Wireshark hangs and crashes >> every 30 minutes so it too is useless in identifying the attack. I also >> learned another server-op who runs a similar server is having the same >> attacks so it's likely the same guy trying to take us both down so he can >> start his own server like ours. >> >> >> >> So then I started thinking about these new game server accounts. My >> affected server is by no means stock. It runs a custom map, has instant >> respawn and 100% crits, which disqualifies it from Quick-play. That's fine >> but here's my question. As I read the recent thread about the new Game >> server account feature, by adding my server to a game server account, I can >> change the IP and players with it saved in their favorites will receive the >> new server IP address because their favorites will update after the IP >> change. Is this correct? If so, I should be able to change the IP after >> registering it and people should find the server through their favorites >> like before even though the server won't work with quick-play right? >> >> >> >> Lastly, with game server accounts becoming the norm, would it not make >> since for Valve to game servers' IP addresses from everyone in the future >> so the ability to attack them would be greatly diminished? I realize that >> dedicated attackers will always find a way to do evil, but by hiding the IP >> addresses from players, it may go a long way to reducing the frequency of >> attacks by script kiddies. >> >> >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> >> >> Happy Saturday, >> >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
