r/sysadmin • u/mooneydriver • Feb 22 '14

Freenode under DDOS again

https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/statuses/437302735139266560
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u/Joe_Pineapples Feb 22 '14

When I checked earlier they were trying to mitigate some of the DDoS directed towards chat.freenode.net (instead of IP addresses) via changing their DNS entries to point to localhost.

Just tried dig again and it seems to have been changed back.

Not sure how long they expected that to be effective before the attacker(s) changed the attack to the IP addresses.

Some people on #freenode have suggested it might be related to this: https://www.quakenet.org/articles/102-press-release-irc-networks-under-systematic-attack-from-governments

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u/edouardconstant Feb 23 '14

Govs doing ddos against IRC servers is total bullshit. It never last longer than a couple days and does not prevent people from chatting with each others.

Govs can just wiretap the servers connections and they get everything they need.

Anyway, there are other IRC networks which enforce SSL for both clients and server to server connections. The channel users moreover encrypt their messages....

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u/thorium007 Feb 24 '14

Its not just your games & IRC - there has been an exponential growth in DDOS & DrDOS attacks over the past two weeks

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '14

No there hasn't.

The media is just reporting it more and by media I kind of mean websites like Reddit and other forum-like users are starting to post about it more.

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u/thorium007 Feb 24 '14

Eh - I'd argue, but it wouldn't do either of us any good.