Discovery Discussion of Security.

[TheMillers]

Seen a program somewhere.. not sure if it would work on Discovery, but might be worth having one of the Server guru's for Disco check it out..
E.G. Server Protector

Edit...
Just found another one.. again Server Admin would have to see if it's worth anything...
FortGuard DDoS Monitor
FortGuard Anti DDoS

None of those would be helpfull in the case of Discovery RP 24/7.

Again, it is the transport mechanism that is under attack, not the physical server.
It doesn't help a thing for the users of Discovery RP 24/7 that the traffic generated by the attack gets blocked at the router which the server is connected to. The traffic needs to be blocked upstream - I.E. at the routers that leads to the router which the server is attached to.

To use the same analogy of roads : You drive on the E55 highway intending to reach Prague. Other cars enters the E55 highway through the various onramps, also intending to reach Prague. Suddenly from 10 different onramps along the E55 highway thousands of cars also enter the highway.
When they arrive at the border of the Czech republic there will be a queue, since the highway only can handle 100 cars pr minute, and there are thousands arriving at the same time.

Diverting the cars without real reason to visit Prague at the Czech border only means that traffic within the Czech republic will flow fine. But all the traffic getting to the entry point at the border will still be congested.

So you need to identify the on-ramps along the E55 highway where the thousands of cars without a real reason to go to Prague enters, and then divert those cars at the on-ramp.

In this case, the border station is the router which the server is connected to, the E55 is the route that data to this specific router (read: IP address) must take, and the on-ramps are the various routers that are used to send data along the way.

The mentioned programs are used to protect your lan segment from being swamped, i.e. from the border station analogy wise, since the only router you really can control and configure to drop the bad datastream, is the one the server is attached to. All the upstream routers are not under your control.

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