ISP least affected by DDOS attacks

[AfricanTech]

With the spate of DDOS attacks on most major South African ISP's, what are the alternatives available to the SA consumer?

Is this something that we simply have to live with (like loadshedding which can at least be mitigated somewhat via inverters, batteries, etc) or are there specific ISP's that

a. appear to be able to avoid being DDOS'd or
b. have superior mitigation in place for when DDOS attacks do take place.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Unfortunately there's no guarantee. If there are any that haven't been hit, it doesn't mean that they won't be hit.

The best bet is to go with someone who at least communicates about it and keeps you updated as they resolve the issue...

 

[milomak]

so this is an industry-wide thing?

 

[xefor]

DDOS attacks are an industry problem and it has become more frequent. Any ISP can be simply overwhelmed.

 

[Fulcrum29]

DDOS attacks are an industry problem and it has become more frequent. Any ISP can be simply overwhelmed.

Not every ISP can mitigate like the other, some have more resources at their disposal to mitigate an attack pending on the scale and vector. It may be an industry-wide problem, but some players in the industry can better absorb the impact.

CDN providers are regularly overwhelmed at multiple nodes and they have invested in mitigating, and minimising these attacks. ISPs, in general, is more reactive than proactive when under DDoS, due to the low margin high volume business they are competing in.

It is all within business continuity principles.

 

[Jings]

Are most DDOS attacks related to industry competitiveness?

 

[maumau]

Are most DDOS attacks related to industry competitiveness?

Very diplomatic @Jings

 

[Jings]

Very diplomatic @Jings

I try, maumau.

 

[Rouxenator]

My cool ideas connection is useless at the moment. Local and international

 

[AfricanTech]

My cool ideas connection is useless at the moment. Local and international

Not just CI - Afrihost, Webafrica, and others starting to buckle under this attack too

 

[Bryn]

My internet is mostly fine with Afrihost Pure Fibre on Openserve. Haven't experienced any downtime. Only just now I've noticed some sites being slow. Still watching Shetland on Netflix no problem.

 

[Fulcrum29]

My internet is mostly fine with Afrihost Pure Fibre on Openserve. Haven't experienced any downtime. Only just now I've noticed some sites being slow. Still watching Shetland on Netflix no problem.

They have local cache. It helps a lot for them and their users.

 

[Jings]

Not just CI - Afrihost, Webafrica, and others starting to buckle under this attack too

Do you know which of the other ones were hit besides Axxess, Liquid Telecom, Echo and the ones you mentioned?

 

[Former member 61586]

Not just CI - Afrihost, Webafrica, and others starting to buckle under this attack too

Axxess international down too. And in true Axxess style, nothing about this on their website.

All Fibre services are currently 100%

 

[AfricanTech]

Do you know which of the other ones were hit besides Axxess, Liquid Telecom, Echo and the ones you mentioned?

Reports that Vodacom is starting to show effects too

 

[steco777]

Webafrica and Vox international traffic too . Afrihost hit hard can’t even open their website

 

[Fulcrum29]

Webafrica and Vox international traffic too . Afrihost hit hard can’t even open their website

Webafrica seems to be iffy, but Vox seems to be allright at the moment and I can open Afrihost's website just fine.

 

[Jings]

Reports that Vodacom is starting to show effects too

Webafrica and Vox international traffic too . Afrihost hit hard can’t even open their website

So the list grows. Not fair for the guys on call at the respective ISP's, considering it's the weekend.

Isn't there a way to stop the botnets?

 

[swim]

Mindthespeed website down says domain expired

 

[Rouxenator]

I did a useless restart of everything on my side. Showmax, Wikipedia and many other sites are unreachable. It works on VodaCom mobile data but over my fibre connection.