My apologies. I assumed from your attitude in the shoutbox, and staff recommending you and bringing you in that you'd volunteered to help out. I see now that you were doing it because you had no other choice.
Who else is right now? It's a little bit much for Shurt; best he can do right now is what we suggest or otherwise setup.
I helped in selecting them, yes. I didn't order them myself though. As for the "wrong server" ordeal, that was just the old provider being lazy. The server itself was fine, they just didn't want to go to the trouble of installing a second NIC.
Fair enough, but you admit that the line was open for you to check if you wanted to.
Okay, I was a little bit generic. When I say flooded I either mean one of two things, both which could've been easily setup - flooded with connections (or for that matter, syn requests, *hint hint*), or flooded with (junk) data. One would assume the former regardless of whether the latter was happening, so why resort to ignoring both and doing nothing instead?
Right, I know you did. It's not that it kicks us out that's the problem, it's that it's not configured to do anything other than that which does.
You said it yourself - 13k syn requests from one IP. You had time to check that, but not - at the very least - nullroute them? Even if you didn't; say so. You want us to have better communication? It works two ways!
I get that you wanted to check these things out firsthand, but wouldn't it have been considerably more productive to work on preventative measures for known and possible future attacks than just leave it until someone attacks to then work on? That was what we assumed you were doing. Yes... assumed.
No it didn't. Not sure which time was first, but the "first" time (by my reckoning) was when it didn't and I was amazed, it being a first that it didn't succumb to the flood... on the other hand, all inbound traffic had seized up. Couldn't access it on the public interface at all. Yes though, the second time it did - but I never said it didn't after that (and if I did, I was referring to the first time).
Sigh... I'm sorry you were called upon. Likewise, if I knew it was going to be this much drama just to setup some simple rules I would've just ignored the staff and left you out of it, and did it myself. Like one of my previous posts mentioned, it's come to that anyway.
Anyway, hopefully, you get better soon (if you haven't already).
I wonder why that is... I'm thinking it has something to do with him attacking us. But hey, if we merge with him, our troubles will be over. So says him.
Neat trick, but - for want of phrasing this nicer - he can go to hell.
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