Why doesn't the server use a No-Ip?

[AeternusDoleo]

It helps, doesn't show noobs who just got a ddos program your ip address.

Start - "Run" - "CMD" [Enter]
"Ping (whatever NoIP address you're provided)" [enter]
Aand voila, IP address obtained. Seriously, if you can't even get an IP based on a hostname, then you'll not be running a botnet capable of launching any noteworthy DDoS. That first D stands for "Distributed", meaning more then one machine's involved in it.

IP banning also doesn't help, since the traffic sent towards the server still has to be received by the server before it can be discarded. The connection running above max capacity is what caused problems for Disco. So no, you can't "script kiddie" it. Read about DNS Amplification attacks... if you can come up with a serverside counter to those, let us know.

Attacks like these have begun to become more commonplace though. Banks here and there, Spamhaus got an attack their way that was so massive that it almost affected the L1 providers of the internet, the Koreas are virtually bombing eachother at leasure (pun intended).... meh. Only a matter of time before internet vandalism (which is essentially what a DDoS is) forces providers to take action against it.

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