Am I getting too old ....

[Banana]

..... for all this website affiliate/domain malarkey?

Bit of the chat transcript below between me and my webhosts ....

Banana: Hello. I can't connect to my website abc.co.uk. Can you help?

Webhosts: let me check

Webhosts: server is currently suffering from a 90MBps DDoS attack and has been nullrouted from the network. We have suspended the VPS which was causing the issue, will get it unnull route soon

Banana: ok .... no idea what that means really ...

I've got a rough idea of what a dos attack is ... so have placed Banana towers on orange alert (can't find a red light bulb)

But "nullrouted from the network" and "unnull route"? Should I know this stuff?

 

[accelerator]

..... for all this website affiliate/domain malarkey?

Bit of the chat transcript below between me and my webhosts ....

I've got a rough idea of what a dos attack is ... so have placed Banana towers on orange alert (can't find a red light bulb)

But "nullrouted from the network" and "unnull route"? Should I know this stuff?

No, because it gives keen young people at hosting companies a job.

I could have a go at explaining it for you, but I find it's better to "abstract" these issues to the tech enthusiasts at the hosting company.

Rgds

 

[monaghan]

Put simply...

null route simply suggests that the border router is reconfigured to dump a section of the traffic thus stopping the "bad" traffic outside the provider's network reducing the impact to other kit on the provider's network. Unfortunately that tends to mean if something on the same network address range as you is getting attacked you may also be affected, but the majority of other customers will remain OK.

They then remove this null route (reconfigure the routers to allow the traffic back into the network) when the border router shows all clear and then your site pops back up onto the interweb thingy and you continue to make a huge profit from your affiliate site.

 

[Banana]

Thank you both

interweb thingy

That's my level of tech talk ... thank you!

 

[monaghan]

No problem, hope all comes back on line again soon.

 

[philipp]

ut "nullrouted from the network" and "unnull route"? Should I know this stuff?

Null route = Cisco-speak for a blackhole route, i.e. traffic gets dropped.
Unnulling a route = Can't be arsed to say route to the right place

Modern lingo is so doubleplus ungood.

P.