[hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks

2014-11-06 Thread Mike Vail
Hello Fellow Windows 2008 Game Server Owners, Today one of my TF2 servers on the dedicated server box I own and colocate in California got DDOS attacked by a guy who announced the attack via in-game chat and then attacked it. The attack got my IP auto-nulled by my datacenter (AGAIN), which has

Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks

2014-11-06 Thread Weasels Lair
Unfortunately if is truly a DDOS (distributed attack, rather than from a single source) just adding a firewall (any kind) is not really going to help. By the time the traffic hits any firewall local to your server its too late. It needs to be dealt with upstream. You need a hosting provider that

Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks

2014-11-06 Thread IBIS Customer Service
The cicso guard routers work really well but are like a half a million dollars or something crazy. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Weasels Lair wea...@weaselslair.com wrote: Unfortunately if is truly a DDOS (distributed attack, rather than from a single source) just adding a firewall (any

Re: [hlds] Guys, I Need Help Purchasing a Windows Firewall to Stop DDOS Attacks

2014-11-06 Thread John Irwin
Short and tall is that you're looking at a much bigger bill than you were probably thinking. We recently did a charity event, and in expectation of trouble our sponsors put the server behind a DDoS-proof firewall. Had we have rented it rather than been given it for a day we were told the server