Ouch. I wonder what the attackers have against TPFC.Andrew Lee wrote: I googled around and found that it is a DDOS attack:
http://e-mats.org/2010/01/tcp-drop-open-request-from/
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Troubles again today!!
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Seems OK at my end. Nothing usual in syslog.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
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Me too, very briefly in the late afternoon CET.
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I also noticed yesterday about 20:00 CET (?)
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Completely offline a la DNS could not resolve portablefreeware.com for a while yesterday morning in UK. I wasn't paying much attention to the time, so I can't be more precise.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/# also reported the site as down.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/# also reported the site as down.
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Wondering too about some temporary mix-up in the whole chain of DNS servers ?
Applied tried-and-true local dns clearing method yesterday, allowed renewed trouble-free access to PFC.
(under win XP/SP3)
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Applied tried-and-true local dns clearing method yesterday, allowed renewed trouble-free access to PFC.
(under win XP/SP3)
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ipconfig /flushdns
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache
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Another possibility is that someone could have been trying a DNS poisoning attack.
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Found out why:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/namecheap-ddos/
Why all these DDOS attacks where even tiny TPFC is not spared? Attackers have too much time/resources on their hands?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/namecheap-ddos/
Why all these DDOS attacks where even tiny TPFC is not spared? Attackers have too much time/resources on their hands?
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Andrew,
The ISP/DNS_nameserver target of the DDos attack reported in the above article is Namecheap (AS22612).
However, I was under the (mistaken?) impression PFC's own server (IP 38.109.218.139) is hosted by a different ISP,
namely "Loose Foot Computing Ltd" (AS40092) ?
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The ISP/DNS_nameserver target of the DDos attack reported in the above article is Namecheap (AS22612).
However, I was under the (mistaken?) impression PFC's own server (IP 38.109.218.139) is hosted by a different ISP,
namely "Loose Foot Computing Ltd" (AS40092) ?
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The VPS is Loose Foot, but the DNS is hosted by Namecheap.
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Aha, of course...thanks!
BTW, there is a nice write up about the "ISP/VPN/VPS" relationship here:
http://security.stackexchange.com/quest ... th-vpn-vps
(...and gratefully, PFC loading feels smooth again, of late.)
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BTW, there is a nice write up about the "ISP/VPN/VPS" relationship here:
http://security.stackexchange.com/quest ... th-vpn-vps
(...and gratefully, PFC loading feels smooth again, of late.)
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I saw that these attacks happened to Freeware Genius as well a while back. My best guess is it's one of those "because it's there" or "because I can" motiveless things. Like it doesn't matter what you aim at, just so long as when you pull the trigger something falls over.Andrew Lee wrote:Why all these DDOS attacks where even tiny TPFC is not spared? Attackers have too much time/resources on their hands?
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FYI, the day before yesterday (2014-04-20) I repeatedly got an error 503 from nginx while trying to access the site...
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Thanks! Will continue to monitor...