Idea for DDOS defend - use VPN?

[killimandros]

oh and here I was of the opinion (after spending a few moments on the forums) we ARE dealing with a salty basement dwelling neckbeard greaseball with a buttmad boner...Wonder what his mom will think when outgoing CC account movements show some thousand dollars being moved to China

[machopi1]

That he's paying some shady chinese doctor for a man-breast reduction surgery?
kek

[Bacta]

Best way to defend against a DDOS is to first understanding how they work. Which 90% of the population who play this game don't. How many DDOS threads do we need?

[Sera]

Whitelist registered users IP addresses - deny all other connections to the game server.
This would require all users sending in their IPs - imo this is well-worth the time and effort.

[Tiggo]

Whitelist registered users IP addresses - deny all other connections to the game server.
This would require all users sending in their IPs - imo this is well-worth the time and effort.

dynamic ip...

[mikke]

Managing and paying for thousands of VPN connections is not an option.

it depends. but it could probably solve the ddos problem.

[Sera]

Whitelist registered users IP addresses - deny all other connections to the game server.
This would require all users sending in their IPs - imo this is well-worth the time and effort.

dynamic ip...

Most of the users have static IP addresses - you can also add safe IP ranges. List should be built step by step. Obviously this would not be the perfect solution for everyone, but at least it'd be a solution, if it works

[WorldOfPain]

Build a Wall

And make the DDOSer pay for it !

[Azarael]

Whitelist registered users IP addresses - deny all other connections to the game server.
This would require all users sending in their IPs - imo this is well-worth the time and effort.

dynamic ip...

Most of the users have static IP addresses - you can also add safe IP ranges. List should be built step by step. Obviously this would not be the perfect solution for everyone, but at least it'd be a solution, if it works

If the connection reaches the acceptance/rejection stage on the target machine, the attack has already succeeded, correct?

[machopi1]

Build a Wall

Should work if the ddosers are a bunch of salty mongolians.