Limestone Networks DDOS again?

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Posted by mifbody, 03-18-2010, 05:39 PM
Anyone else having issues?
Posted by mifbody, 03-18-2010, 05:40 PM
Every time I go to hit reply and type "OK, it's better now" it stops responding to pings again.
Posted by mifbody, 03-18-2010, 05:42 PM
Full screen of uninterrupted pings - seems to be straightening out. LSN seems to get hit with these all the time.
Posted by mifbody, 03-18-2010, 05:45 PM
Hmmm that doesn't sound too good. I'm actually thinking about switching to lower my payment but this might be the thing that really pushes me there.
Posted by Negizmo, 03-18-2010, 07:13 PM
You would think a company like Limestone Networks would be able to mitigate such an attack pretty easily, no?
Posted by mifbody, 03-18-2010, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Henrik

Got any more info on that?

And, is downtime similar to this a frequent problem with Limestone Networks?

Depends on your definition of frequent. Mind you - this only lasted 5-10 minutes at most. Do people actually notice those 5-10 minute outages? Only if you're on your site. I'm on my site a LOT and I do notice this every few weeks, at least once a month.

Another annoyance is that my IP block was banned because of LSN hosting too many spammer accounts... spamhaus blacklisted a group of LSN's IP addresses and mine just happened to fall into that block even though my IP and my servers have never been infected nor cause of spam.

Aside from those two frustrations - LSN is a great provider. Their customer service is top notch and they were an incredible help two times when my registry randomly went corrupt and I needed to get a new OS loaded.

Quite honestly, I'm a first time home buyer and I just got into a signed purchase agreement so I've been trying to decide if it's time to tighten my belt and get a cheaper server but I'm having a really hard time finding a comparable server for a cheaper price.
Posted by Dustin Cisneros, 03-18-2010, 11:15 PM
Mike from LimeStone is pretty active here so im pretty sure he'll respond to this best of luck.
Posted by Jacob Wall, 03-18-2010, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by semoweb

Mike from LimeStone is pretty active here so im pretty sure he'll respond to this best of luck.

I'm surprised he hasn't already chimed in, he's always here. I think he lives in WHT.
Posted by Jacob Wall, 03-18-2010, 11:20 PM
My guess is Mike will reply in 5....4....3....2.....1.
Posted by Henrik, 03-19-2010, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Jacob Wall

Nope it's not.

LSN is still a great provider.

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Originally Posted by mifbody

Depends on your definition of frequent. Mind you - this only lasted 5-10 minutes at most. Do people actually notice those 5-10 minute outages? Only if you're on your site. I'm on my site a LOT and I do notice this every few weeks, at least once a month.

Another annoyance is that my IP block was banned because of LSN hosting too many spammer accounts... spamhaus blacklisted a group of LSN's IP addresses and mine just happened to fall into that block even though my IP and my servers have never been infected nor cause of spam.

Aside from those two frustrations - LSN is a great provider. Their customer service is top notch and they were an incredible help two times when my registry randomly went corrupt and I needed to get a new OS loaded.

Quite honestly, I'm a first time home buyer and I just got into a signed purchase agreement so I've been trying to decide if it's time to tighten my belt and get a cheaper server but I'm having a really hard time finding a comparable server for a cheaper price.

Being blacklisted does suck, I've seen servers being blacklisted too because they happened to be in the same netblock as abusers.

LSN seem to have good prices and seem to run a good operation, however there are still things to be worked on it seems - as you state above, for example.

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Originally Posted by Jacob Wall

It's not LSNs fault. Some crazy person has been going around DDOSing people, we suffered a 1Gbps DDOS a few weeks ago.

Here's some bandwidth graphs.

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5451510_n.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...0_645818_n.jpg

DOS of various kinds do happen, it is about how it is handled at the provider and what ground equipment and capacity is in place. Some providers can swallow what others would get pushed offline by.

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Originally Posted by Hybridsoft

I was referring to a post above about being able to pay for backbone providers

I was too. I think that it was quite a strong statement, and I'd like to get proof on this. I personally don't like to read such stuff, without anything backing it up.
Posted by mifbody, 04-05-2010, 01:04 PM
LSN sent out an e-mail to all their members saying that they are not having any issues with their network and that people are spreading lies in an effort to steal their customers. I'm curious why 1) LSN hasn't said anything in this thread and 2) why the people who were bad mouthing LSN haven't said anything for almost a month...

Edit: D'oh - I didn't realize that all the LSN trashing/winkie faces about something going on with LSN that a lot of the hosting providers on here were doing have been removed from the thread..