Cool Ideas fighting off a massive DDoS attack

What happened to the MRTG graph in the article showing only +- 2gbit/s of peak total traffic, then an article saying only 40gbit/s of traffic was legit yet the graph shows 5% of that? I'm sceptical on the numbers or am I missing something???
 
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Are they winning ? these DDOS attacks is not a good thing... for any ISP. It means any other ISP might be their next target.
 
Or its our pals Russia & China using us as a testing ground...
 
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quovadis said:
What happened to the MRTG graph in the article showing only +- 2gbit/s of peak total traffic, then an article saying only 40gbit/s of traffic was legit yet the graph shows 5% of that? I'm sceptical on the numbers or am I missing something???
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That was an outdated graph from 2+ years ago, and thus we asked RPM to remove it.
 
Rickster said:
Doesn't DDOSing cause the ISP money in terms of capacity used?
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Most if not all capacity is charged in terms of provisioning rather than use. So unless they provision on the fly it shouldn't.
 
Conspiracy theory incoming.

If Afrihost switched over to Telkom links rather than using Liquid... Could it be that some bright spark over at Telkom hired this attack in order to try force more business onto the Telkom network? After all, Telkom is majority owned by govt. and the govt. is very friendly with the Russians.

Just asking because I don't remember any attacks on this scale before Telkom started seriously suffering from the mass exodus going on right now.
 
friedpiggy said:
Conspiracy theory incoming.

If Afrihost switched over to Telkom links rather than using Liquid... Could it be that some bright spark over at Telkom hired this attack in order to try force more business onto the Telkom network? After all, Telkom is majority owned by govt. and the govt. is very friendly with the Russians.

Just asking because I don't remember any attacks on this scale before Telkom started seriously suffering from the mass exodus going on right now.
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That theory could be possible is the attack is aimed at the transit provider. In Afrihost case it was exactly that. The attack was aimed at their transit provider Liquid Telecoms and for them to have switched to another made sense. In Cool Ideas case the attack is aimed at their IP Ranges. This mean even if they change transit providers the attack will still go on it will just use the new transit providers capacity.


Very simple explanation.

If the road you are driving on is the target then changing roads will solve the issue. If you are the target changing roads won't help because they will still target you no matter what road you are on.
 
flarkit said:
How is the speed and stability looking today?
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Before leaving home this morning, things felt back to normal, at least when using my phone to browse a couple of apps.
I didn't do any speed testing though, so I don't have any empirical evidence to back up my claim...
 
dits said:
Anyone know what cancellation policy with Cool Ideas is like. If I cancel now, do I pay till end of November? Or to end of December?
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If you cancel now, you can join Afrihost and they give you the rest of the month and the next two free. So you can cancel and switch without being negatively affected.
 
How are they getting hit so frequently and cannot stop the attacks? It's happening way too often at this point to consider them a viable ISP. I personally know 2 people that are signing up for different ISP's today. Not because of this one attack but because of the frequency and lack of communication to customers that are affected.

Sad to see such a fantastic ISP being strangled like this
 
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