Re: Host.us DDOS attack

[Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us>]

Strange that they cannot send a BGP blackhole upstream to keep everyone 
else online within their advertised route.

On 8/3/16 5:27 PM, Tony Wicks wrote:
> Further to that, and I would suggest it should be part of the overall discussion here. It appears the IPv4 IP block my VM is in 
> is not currently advertised on the world route table. I assume hostus.us's transit provider has dropped their ipv4 BGP to 
> save themselves. This is really the ultimate reward for the extortionists as they don't even need to sustain the DDOS to 
> attack their target. While I see the transit providers point of view, it’s a pretty shitty situation for their customer, and 
> their customers/customers.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: Host.us DDOS attack
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> Interestingly my VM (LA) with them has been effectively down for half a day as far as IPv4 is concerned. IPv6 traffic 
> seems unaffected.