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Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service?
From: Paras Jha <paras () protrafsolutions com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:21:30 -0400
I read through the blog post, and it was an interesting window into how Cloudflare operates. If I could be so bold as to raise this issue, however - Specifically, this part *Originally, when we would receive reports of phishing or malware we would terminate the customers immediately. The challenge was that this didn't actually solve the problem. Since we're just a proxy, not the host, us terminating the customer doesn't make the harmful content disappear. Terminating the site effectively just kicked the problem further down the road, moving it off our network and onto someone else's.*
From that paragraph, what I understand it as is that Cloudflare doesn't
want to terminate customers hosting illegal content / facilitating illegal activities because if they do, that content will just move elsewhere. It was an interesting parallel to one of the problems plaguing the internet today - source address spoofing. More and more hosts are implementing source address verification, but unfortunately there are still those that still allow source address spoofing (and those hosts are sometimes used to launch amplified DDoS attacks). However, reputable hosts don't make the argument "We won't disallow source address spoofing because if we block it, the customers will just go elsewhere". Reputable providers block it, and try to get others to block the problem as well. The difference is that Cloudflare is lax "because other people are lax, so it's pointless for us to be strict". That kind of logic is the same flawed logic that goes with "I shouldn't vote, because no matter which way I vote my vote is insignificant". Sure, as a single entity that's true - but if everybody thought that, we'd be in a real pickle. Some problems are larger than what an individual faces, and must be addressed by not just a single entity, but all the entities to whom this problem affects - it is your responsibility to vote, a hosts responsibility to disable source address verification (and help fight crime on their network), and I'd argue it's Cloudflare's responsibility to help stop abuse. Just my 2C On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Paras Jha <paras () protrafsolutions com> wrote:
Justin, The only problem with that statement is that it's not true: if you did terminate service to them, the websites would go away. Maybe not today, but eventually. "Network stresser" owners are notorious for trying to take out the competition. Cloudflare provides free protection for these services to stay online. Most other ISPs wouldn't tolerate such shenanigans, whether it be for facilitating illegal activities or being on the receiving end of DDoS attacks, and would kick them off. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Justin Paine <justin () cloudflare com> wrote:Folks, "For a long time their abuse@ alias was (literally) routed to /dev/null. I'm not sure whether that's still the case or whether they now ignore reports manually." @Steve It (literally) never was. :) The team I manage processes reports all day long. If you have a report to file certainly do so, https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse On the topic of booters: Short version -- As someone already mentioned, CloudFlare continues not to be a hosting provider. Our CEO has broadly covered this topic several times. https://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse/ Even if we removed our service the website does not go away, it doesn't solve the problem if we temporarily stop providing DNS to the domain(s). An often overlooked but extremely important note: there are some situations where law enforcement has required that we *not* terminate service to certain websites. In those situations we are of course not allowed to discuss specifics. ____________ Justin Paine Head of Trust & Safety CloudFlare Inc. PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Paras Jha <paras () protrafsolutions com> wrote:A five minute Google search revealed this, which is just the tip of the iceberg booter.xyz exitus.to zstress.net critical-boot.com instress.club webstresser.co anonymousstresser.com rawdos.com kronosbooter.com alphastress.com synergy.so str3ssed.me layer7.pw There are probably hundreds On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Paras Jha <paras () protrafsolutions com wrote:This is quite common, almost all of the DDoS-for-hire services arehostedbehind CloudFlare, and a great majority of them take PayPal. Anotheronehad even managed to secure an EV SSL cert. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Dovid Bender <dovid () telecurve com> wrote:I used to have a boss that was convinced that MCafee was writingvirusesto stay in business.... Regards, Dovid -----Original Message----- From: Phil Rosenthal <pr () isprime com> Sender: "NANOG" <nanog-bounces () nanog org>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 201622:17:53To: jim deleskie<deleskie () gmail com> Cc: NANOG list<nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Plus, it’s good for business! -PhilOn Jul 26, 2016, at 10:14 PM, jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>wrote:sigh... On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai netwrote:CloudFlare will claim they are not hosting the problem. They arejusthosting the web page that lets you pay for or points at orotherwisedirects you to the problem. The actual source of packets is some other IP address. Therefore,theycankeep hosting the web page. It is not sending the actual [spam|DDoS|hack|etc.], right? So stop asking them to do somethingabout it!Whether you think that is the proper way to provide service on the Internet is left as an exercise to the reader. -- TTFN, patrickOn Jul 26, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Mike <mike-nanog () tiedyenetworks com>wrote:Hi, So vbooter.org's dns and web is hosted by cloudflare? "Using vBooter you can take down home internet connections,websitesandgame servers such us Minecraft, XBOX Live, PSN and many more."dig -t ns vbooter.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.8-Ubuntu <<>> -t ns vbooter.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62177 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0,ADDITIONAL: 1;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;vbooter.org. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: vbooter.org. 21599 IN NS rick.ns.cloudflare.com. vbooter.org. 21599 IN NS amy.ns.cloudflare.com. dig -t a www.vbooter.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.8-Ubuntu <<>> -t a www.vbooter.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34920 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0,ADDITIONAL: 1;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.vbooter.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.vbooter.org. 299 IN CNAME vbooter.org. vbooter.org. 299 IN A 104.28.13.7 vbooter.org. 299 IN A 104.28.12.7 Can anyone from cloudflare answer me why this fits with yourbusinessmodel?Mike--- Regards, Paras President ProTraf Solutions, LLC Enterprise DDoS Mitigation-- Regards, Paras President ProTraf Solutions, LLC Enterprise DDoS Mitigation-- Regards, Paras President ProTraf Solutions, LLC Enterprise DDoS Mitigation
-- Regards, Paras President ProTraf Solutions, LLC Enterprise DDoS Mitigation
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- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 26)
- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? jim deleskie (Jul 26)
- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Phil Rosenthal (Jul 26)
- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? jim deleskie (Jul 26)
- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Larry Sheldon (Jul 26)
- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Dovid Bender (Jul 26)
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- Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service? Paras Jha (Jul 26)
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