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Ok, so quick background. My LS is a "family friendly" LS. That is, the leader of our linkshell felt it best - because we have members under age of 18 - to set aside certain times for "appropriate" and "inappropriate" behavior. Very simply, before 10pm CST the LS talk is more or less PG with a few specific exceptions. After 10PM CST almost anything goes.
Every single member of our linkshell is told of this rule (and has to agree to follow it) before recieving a pearl.
Its not that hard. Of course, every once in a while, someone is a smart ass, and breaks the rule. We let it slide. They get a warning. No big deal. Sometimes it takes a couple weeks for people to get used to it - especially if they are on GMT, or JST. I mean, the rule is CST based after all.
So people usually get multiple warnings. From multiple sack holders (who basicly only have a sack because they are "officially" in charge of enforcing the LS rules).
Yet someone, inevitably, decides to intentionally and wilfully, go above and beyond in breaking the rules. We're talking on the level of XXX bad 3D 70's porn breakage, JUST because they can and decide that "the 10pm rule is for loosers LOLZ."
These people get kicked. No biggy. I'm sure they will find plenty of other LS's that don't have a PG rule, and I wish them better luck with thier new LS, and more friends in thier next life.
Well, one of these people decided to DoS attack our LS webpage. Now, I would like to point out that our LS webpage is hosted on my cable connection using a dynamic DNS service. That means when the webpage got DoS attacked, -I- started loosing internet connection.
Took me weeks to figure out what was going on. Three cable modems later, two routers, technicians at the house, technicians down the block. The internet company had NO clue what was going on, and neither did I until today. Of course, during all of this, we've had firewalls off because of all the techs doing work to solve the problem (how ironic).
So now we have a problem, no idea why, and no way to find out (because the firewalls are off -.- ) and the only logging is done via router at this point (which is disconnected while the techs work with a computer that is "directly connected" to internet).
It suddenly occurs to me that maybe it wasn't an issue with the internet service, so I hook up the router, and sure enough HORDES of transfering data... and internet goes down.
I'm going to take the time to point out, now, that my connection issues started in conjunction with me booting a particularly nasty ex-member from the LS, a thought that didn't occur to me until I realized I was the victim of a DoS attack.
Anyhow, I highly, highly suspect that the attacks and my discconects of the last two weeks were caused by an ex-LS Mate. Either way, I got my vengence.
I turned on some firewall software, got the offending IP address (it was a brodband connection based in the same city as the previously booted LS mate, consequently), and redirected my dynamic DNS to his IP address.
Why do people have to be so... childish? I hope he has fun DoS'ing me, now.
Double Post Edited:
I can't help but notice the irony for the "childish" comment I made, considering what I did was fairly childish as well.
Every single member of our linkshell is told of this rule (and has to agree to follow it) before recieving a pearl.
Its not that hard. Of course, every once in a while, someone is a smart ass, and breaks the rule. We let it slide. They get a warning. No big deal. Sometimes it takes a couple weeks for people to get used to it - especially if they are on GMT, or JST. I mean, the rule is CST based after all.
So people usually get multiple warnings. From multiple sack holders (who basicly only have a sack because they are "officially" in charge of enforcing the LS rules).
Yet someone, inevitably, decides to intentionally and wilfully, go above and beyond in breaking the rules. We're talking on the level of XXX bad 3D 70's porn breakage, JUST because they can and decide that "the 10pm rule is for loosers LOLZ."
These people get kicked. No biggy. I'm sure they will find plenty of other LS's that don't have a PG rule, and I wish them better luck with thier new LS, and more friends in thier next life.
Well, one of these people decided to DoS attack our LS webpage. Now, I would like to point out that our LS webpage is hosted on my cable connection using a dynamic DNS service. That means when the webpage got DoS attacked, -I- started loosing internet connection.
Took me weeks to figure out what was going on. Three cable modems later, two routers, technicians at the house, technicians down the block. The internet company had NO clue what was going on, and neither did I until today. Of course, during all of this, we've had firewalls off because of all the techs doing work to solve the problem (how ironic).
So now we have a problem, no idea why, and no way to find out (because the firewalls are off -.- ) and the only logging is done via router at this point (which is disconnected while the techs work with a computer that is "directly connected" to internet).
It suddenly occurs to me that maybe it wasn't an issue with the internet service, so I hook up the router, and sure enough HORDES of transfering data... and internet goes down.
I'm going to take the time to point out, now, that my connection issues started in conjunction with me booting a particularly nasty ex-member from the LS, a thought that didn't occur to me until I realized I was the victim of a DoS attack.
Anyhow, I highly, highly suspect that the attacks and my discconects of the last two weeks were caused by an ex-LS Mate. Either way, I got my vengence.
I turned on some firewall software, got the offending IP address (it was a brodband connection based in the same city as the previously booted LS mate, consequently), and redirected my dynamic DNS to his IP address.
Why do people have to be so... childish? I hope he has fun DoS'ing me, now.
Double Post Edited:
I can't help but notice the irony for the "childish" comment I made, considering what I did was fairly childish as well.
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