Anyone else down?

**VOIPoTim** · 04-01-2009 05:57 PM

It looks like someone does not want our service to stay up and just keeps sending these floods of traffic (almost to the point of being a DOS attack).

We're evaluating putting in some more powerful hardware firewalls tonight.

**digger16309** · 04-01-2009 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by VOIPoTim

It looks like someone does not want our service to stay up and just keeps sending these floods of traffic (almost to the point of being a DOS attack).

We're evaluating putting in some more powerful hardware firewalls tonight.

I'd say that's an accurate description because my service is being denied.

**gbh2o** · 04-01-2009 06:53 PM

FWIW, I did not notice any outage, the Zoom indicates that it's happy with all appropriate lights lit and I still have service; no reboot was required, so I would guess no outage occurred here. It's still set to register to the default sip.voipwelcome.com, where ever that puts me at a given moment.

Please do not shoot all the BYOD users. If you believe there is a problem my equipment, simply turn me off and send me note to fix it! I listen well to criticism before counter-attacking! ;-)

**ptrowski** · 04-01-2009 07:26 PM

My lights on the PAP2 never went off, but the service was going to dead air, the CP showed the device connected.

Maybe a denial of service, how about all of the obviously fake profiles that were being generated and finally had to be brought to Voipo's attention?

**VOIPoTim** · 04-01-2009 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by ptrowski

My lights on the PAP2 never went off, but the service was going to dead air, the CP showed the device connected.

Maybe a denial of service, how about all of the obviously fake profiles that were being generated and finally had to be brought to Voipo's attention?

Forum users wouldn't have anything to do with the other portions of the service. They're not even in the same datacenters.

The attacks do seem to be under control, but we're working on making some changes tonight to beef up our protection since they do seem to come back.

Even more interesting in where we think they originate, but this isn't really the place to go into that.

**ptrowski** · 04-01-2009 07:32 PM

I know that, but all of a sudden there are an influx here and now you are being targeted. Either a huge coincidence....

**VOIPoTim** · 04-01-2009 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by ptrowski

I know that, but all of a sudden there are an influx here and now you are being targeted. Either a huge coincidence....

Based on what we think is the origination of the network traffic, we're definitely being targeted and I think everyone on this forum would connect the dots very quickly if I mentioned a certain city. I just can't get into specifics here.

**voipinit** · 04-01-2009 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by VOIPoTim

It looks like someone does not want our service to stay up and just keeps sending these floods of traffic (almost to the point of being a DOS attack).

We're evaluating putting in some more powerful hardware firewalls tonight.

If you think you are being attacked, check out:

http://www.stopddos.org/

These guys are sharp and in most cases can identify the source of an active attack within minutes.