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manilaheat · 11-06-2006, 06:14 PM

GFY Board Members,

Let me explain to both hosting companies customers what happened in this situation.

Our network is protected by an intrusion detection system that protects our network from attacks, port scans, and other malicious activity from other networks on the Internet.

Late last week, thresholds put in place for ASN 30913 were exceeded and that network was thus null routed until it could be investigated. Because ASN 30913 has less than a 200 Mbps normal effect on our network, we classified this as a single attack source.

In the past there have been multiple attacks to our network from a broad range of IP addresses on ASN 30913 that, though our network is capable of sustaining, brought down individual targeted servers. The attacks were progressive in nature using multiple IP that would change. Directly following the attack, the owners of the servers were contacted by other hosting companies soliciting business.

It is absurd for anyone to suggest that we did this to specifically disallow customers of AdultEUhost to access our network. Our customers pay us for full connectivity to the Internet and that is what we provide. Furthermore, we are paid to insure that their servers are protected from intrusion, and that is what we did in this case.

I have personally talked to Leon of AdultEUHost, and he has assured me that he will investigate such attacks personally. He also gave me his word that such attacks are not being initiated by any staff member of AdultEUHost.

I have thus removed the block of ASN 30913 from ASN 19166 and traffic should be back to normal between the two networks.

I apologize to any member of this board that was negatively affected by this action, but it is necessary in cases to insure our customer’s server safety.

James McCreary
CEO, Alpha Red INC

11-06-2006, 06:14 PM
manilaheat Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 584	GFY Board Members, Let me explain to both hosting companies customers what happened in this situation. Our network is protected by an intrusion detection system that protects our network from attacks, port scans, and other malicious activity from other networks on the Internet. Late last week, thresholds put in place for ASN 30913 were exceeded and that network was thus null routed until it could be investigated. Because ASN 30913 has less than a 200 Mbps normal effect on our network, we classified this as a single attack source. In the past there have been multiple attacks to our network from a broad range of IP addresses on ASN 30913 that, though our network is capable of sustaining, brought down individual targeted servers. The attacks were progressive in nature using multiple IP that would change. Directly following the attack, the owners of the servers were contacted by other hosting companies soliciting business. It is absurd for anyone to suggest that we did this to specifically disallow customers of AdultEUhost to access our network. Our customers pay us for full connectivity to the Internet and that is what we provide. Furthermore, we are paid to insure that their servers are protected from intrusion, and that is what we did in this case. I have personally talked to Leon of AdultEUHost, and he has assured me that he will investigate such attacks personally. He also gave me his word that such attacks are not being initiated by any staff member of AdultEUHost. I have thus removed the block of ASN 30913 from ASN 19166 and traffic should be back to normal between the two networks. I apologize to any member of this board that was negatively affected by this action, but it is necessary in cases to insure our customer’s server safety. James McCreary CEO, Alpha Red INC __________________ ALPHARED.COM - 61000 Mbps of Capacity 24/7 Live Support Guaranteed No Buffer / No Congestion Guarantee! [email protected] - ICQ 381-726-093