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Message # 14303.2.1.1.1.1.1 Subject: Re: Re: That still sounds like hacker prevention to me. Date: Thu 27/01/05 20:19:28 GMT Name: soundguy Email: wetlookchat@themothership.net Website: themothership.net |
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All servers operated by TheMothership.net have multiple layers of protection. The 'banning' that occasionally happens to some people is the result of too many failed login attempts within a certain time period. This triggers a brute force attack detection program called BFD, which adds the perpetrator's IP address to the firewall's list of blocked addresses. This protection works on all ports and all services. Most attacks occur on ports that have nothing to do with the web servers and for every innocent customer who gets himself banned by forgetting his password, there will be thousands of legitimate attacks launched by malicious automated scripts running on compromised 'zombie' computers. The protection system is extremely effective. ;)
DDOS attacks and the mechanisms that combat them are completely unrelated to brute force protection. There is little that can be done at the server level against 10,000 zombies all pinging you at once. DDOS attacks are mitigated or neutralized at the network's core router level by hardware such as the Riverhead system employed by the datacenter in which we are located. This is also very effective.
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In reply to Message (14303.2.1.1.1.1) Re: That still sounds like hacker prevention to me.
By Be Wary - Thu 27/01/05 07:31:54 GMT It sounds like your servers are fitted with protection against DNS (denial of service) attacks or mass amount of connection attempts from one computer. However what would happens if someone tried a DDNS (distributed denial of service) attack, a setup like your own would have little protection from something like this and it just happens that this is what most common these days.
Anyways just wanted to give my two cents. |
In reply to Message (14303.2.1.1.1) That still sounds like hacker prevention to me.
By leonmoomin - leon@mostwet.com Thu 27/01/05 02:08:25 GMT If your ISP is blocked from our servers, you will see a "page can't be found" or error page, this is because once you are blocked our site will not allow your computer to connect to our servers, if your computer can't connect to our server, then it will not be able to find the page.
I know this, because during beta testing, both me and messmaster managed to ban ourselves from the servers, haha!
Take the course of action that mark just suggested.
leonmoomin |
In reply to Message (14303.2.1.1) Re: Re: Re: Anyone else having trouble getting into MK's website or is it just me?
By Juan - Thu 27/01/05 00:35:41 GMT I have also problems to get into your website Mike,but the problem is not my ip, when I try to enter in your website, I click your link, and after long time I see "page do not found". |
In reply to Message (14303.2.1) Re: Re: Anyone else having trouble getting into MK's website or is it just me?
By Anonymous - Thu 27/01/05 00:34:31 GMT I have also problems to get into your website Mike,but the problem is not my ip, when I try to enter in your website, I click your link, and after long time I see "page do not found". |
In reply to Message (14303.2) Re: Anyone else having trouble getting into MK's website or is it just me?
By MK - wamtec@compuserve.com Wed 26/01/05 19:53:43 GMT Frankie, I just checked and your wamtec gold membership expired 2 months ago. If you have made several attempts to enter the site under an expired ID, then after you try too many times, then our hacker-lock security system flags your ip address and bans you from all my domains on the server. We have warning notices...i.e. please do not keep trying to enter if your login does not work, email us first...cos our security system bans your ip address after too many failed attempts, and then you cannot access any of my domains cos your ip address is banned from the server. We have to have these measures in place to prevent robotic trial and error programs from attempting to hack the site.
If you can access my domains, then you can renew at www.wamgold.com
If you cannot access my domains, then it means our security system has banned you for making too attempts to login on an expired ID. This is why we ask folks to email if us their login does not work...to avoid the security system from banning their ip address from the server.
If you cannot access my domains cos your ip address is blocked....then to get unblocked...you must report your computer ip address to me via email...you can display it at www.whatsmyip.org and then I can contact my tech support guy to flush our firewall and unblock your ip address.
regards Mark
ps....this also applies to other sites in our network...i.e. tzmodels.com and mostwet.com members.....if you are having problems logging in...please email us first...don't keep trying to log in and keep failing, cos after too many attempts our security system considers you to be a hacker and then your computer ip address get banned from the server. |
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By frankie - Wed 26/01/05 18:53:42 GMT (no text) |
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