nsane.forums Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 DDoS attacks are not an unusual event for BitTorrent sites, with smaller sites suffering the effects more often than they’d like. However, to take out one of the big players requires some serious power, and that is exactly what Mininova is up against right now.Mininova co-founder Niek confirmed to TorrentFreak that they have been suffering from a DDoS attack over the past few days. The site is currently being pounded by a botnet of hundreds of computers which is slowing the site down significantly and at times making it completely inaccessible.Niek said that he has no idea who’s behind the attack or why they chose to target Mininova. This is not the first time the site has had to deal with a Denial of Service attack, but they haven’t witnessed one of this magnitude before. It started on Thursday originating from three different continents, but seemed to wear off in the hours that followed. Today it’s back in full force. Mininova is used to serving millions of visitors a day, but even they are not equipped to handle an attack like this.Today’s attack originates from Germany and Argentina and is 2 Gbit strong. The DDoS attack is maxing out the entire uplink and is hard to filter since it uses UDP connections. Niek told TorrentFreak that they are working on a solution at the moment, and he hopes things will be back to normal soon.Traffic graph of one of the uplinks last Thursday View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyIpield Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Really you need a reliable ddos protection provider that is willing to do traffic filtering to disable a Syn Flood attack in the event you have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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