Question / Help Im Being DDOSed , BF3 Stream

StianNorway

StianNorway

New Member
I stream bf3, and when i get a decent nr of viewers i get DDOSed by some guys ingame and they are also in the chat. (fucking kids, and they also advertising hack sites, like Artificialaiming.net and so on...They Hacking ingame and kill me with ammobox and at the same time they crash the stream, disconnect and also my internet for few minuts++

how can i stop this? i also have http://www.hidemyass.com/ so i hide my ip. But they do it again, dont work. or maybe im doing something wrong with the router.

Any help? this is getting very frustrating and im considering stop streaming on twitch.tv if it wont stop.

Regards Stian
 
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Greendweller

Member
Some routers have flooding protection build in (ddos protection)
but most of the time it's disabled. i would advice to check your router specs/settings and see it it perhaps has sutch a protection.

(personally i have a tp-link TL-WR1043ND witch has it build in)
 
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Greendweller

Member
Hmm perhaps i have a basic misunderstanding then about what flooding means.
Personally i thought it was just another wording for ddos attacks according from my searxh on internet.

And when i check my router settings and the advanced security help in it, i do see:

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ICMP-FLOOD Packets Threshold (5~3600) - The default value is 50. Enter a value between 5 ~ 3600. When the current ICMP-FLOOD Packets number is beyond the set value, the Router will startup the blocking function immediately.
Enable UDP-FLOOD Filtering - Enable or Disable the UDP-FLOOD Filtering.
UDP-FLOOD Packets Threshold (5~3600) - The default value is 500. Enter a value between 5 ~ 3600. When the current UPD-FLOOD Packets number is beyond the set value, the Router will startup the blocking function immediately.
Enable TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack Filtering - Enable or Disable the TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack Filtering.
TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets Threshold (5~3600) - The default value is 50. Enter a value between 5 ~ 3600. When the current TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets numbers is beyond the set value, the Router will startup the blocking function immediately.

It was because of these two things why i was suggesting this to him.
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

Active Member
That flood protection will help (slightly) with a DoS (single origin point of attack). It won't help with a DDoS (thousands of points of attack).

The problem is, in a DDoS your bandwidth is eaten up already JUST by the SYN (new connection request) and RST (new connection denied, sent from your machine to theirs) packets. The only way NOT To have this happen is for your ISP to block the packets from ever being sent to your connection from their network backbone (an upstream block).
If you're getting DDoSed, you may have to contact your ISP, talk your way through a level or two of tech support until you get someone who knows what they're doing instead of just mindlessly reading off a script, and explain the situation; that you're regularly getting DDoSed. They *should* be able to help.

The number one thing you can do to avoid a DDoS though? UNINSTALL SKYPE.

It's an insecure piece of bloatware. Even the recent updates haven't actually fixed the problems, just masked them and pretended to fix 'em. I strongly recommend that no one streaming ever use it. There are workarounds to send it over a VPN tunnel... but it's easier to just use Steam multi-user voice chat.
 
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