[Tomboeg]

Hello.

My name is Tom and i'm a management member of the Zombie Apocalypse server.
We're a great and big community, but we're facing a big problem.

We're constantly being DDOSйd by the same person.
We can't prevent this from happening.
Several hosting companies have kicked us from their services.

But what can we do against it?
We already tried DDOS protection which costed us alot of money.
Change ip..

Do you guys have something like anti-DDOS or i don't know.
How do the other SAMP servers survive this?

Please inform us of this ASAP.

The DDOS attacks to our community won't stop and we're about to close down.

Best Regards, Tomboeg.

EDIT:

This is where it comes from:

IP address 188.26.173.242
Hostname 188-26-173-242.rdsnet.ro
ISP RCS & RDS S.A.
Country Romania, Bucharest

And also this we got:

1. Dedicated Server.
2. We're receiving packets.
3. we bought an Dedicated server for 149$ we moved SA-MP it got attacked with 1GB attack (ddos) we contacted the support team they couldn't solve it.
4. We've bought an anti-ddos protection software for 99$ which still can handle 1GB attack basically we cannot afford to lose anymore money to put it in a pile of trash. - Switched hosts/ip
5. We can't affort to lose any more money to this.

[VOXrr]

Hey Tomboeg,

A few quick questions before anyone's able to suggest anything useful:

• What type of hosting are you currently using; VPS/Dedicated/Game Server Host?
• Are you aware of what type of DDoS attack you are experiencing?
• Are you aware of the size (PPS/Gbps) of the attack?
• What have you tried so far to combat the attacks?
• What's your budget?

Damn script kiddies with their booters

[Tomboeg]

Answers found posted by the community owner:

1. Dedicated Server.
2. We're receiving packets.
3. we bought an Dedicated server for 149$ we moved SA-MP it got attacked with 1GB attack (ddos) we contacted the support team they couldn't solve it.
4. We've bought an anti-ddos protection software for 99$ which still can handle 1GB attack basically we cannot afford to lose anymore money to put it in a pile of trash. - Switched hosts/ip
5. We can't affort to lose any more money to this.

[doodle210]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VOXrr Hey Tomboeg, A few quick questions before anyone's able to suggest anything useful: What type of hosting are you currently using; VPS/Dedicated/Game Server Host? Are you aware of what type of DDoS attack you are experiencing? Are you aware of the size (PPS/Gbps) of the attack? What have you tried so far to combat the attacks? What's your budget? Damn script kiddies with their booters

1. we are using Dedicated
2. we are getting DDoS from older games such as CSS and HL
3. the size varies... it can be low at times and then BOOM...
4. we have tried buying DDoS protection but as tom said... not helping much...
5. nothing anymore. we already spent $200+ in less than 2 weeks
we are only asking because we have noticed that other bigger servers would have been DDoS'd by now and we were wondering what they did

[Tomboeg]

Quote:

Originally Posted by doodle210 we are only asking because we have noticed that other bigger servers would have been DDoS'd by now and we were wondering what they did

This is the big question, i've contacted other servers aswell and they told me it is 'classified'

[ColorHost-Kevin]

Well We would need to know the range of the attacks in order to recommend anything to you guys.

Sorry that your going through with this. Its rather unfortunate.

[doodle210]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ColorHost-Kevin Well We would need to know the range of the attacks in order to recommend anything to you guys. Sorry that your going through with this. Its rather unfortunate.

range of attacks?

[Tomboeg]

Can't SAMP itself ban this IP or?

[[MM]IKKE]

If you ban the IP using SA-MP functions, he is still able to connect to your server - hence why he gets the ban message. An external firewall can prevent incoming connections completely - they won't even see your server info in their client. You could contact your ISP to block the incoming connections from those IP ranges in the data center itself (unsure if that is going to happen).

You can also contact the DDoS'ers ISP and tell them about the attacks. Sometimes that results in their customer's (DDoS'er) internet being closed off. Which gets them into huge problems considering most DDoS'ers around are minors and use their parent's internet.

SA-MP cannot prevent them connecting to your server - only the master list is hosted by SA-MP...

Also, could you specify the attack? Flood joins? Bot attack connecting to server?

[darkrider366]

If you have a dedicated server, maybe you could ask your host to block the IP at switch level?