[ale] Ddos attack

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 2014-09-22 10:57, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I was trying to send out email this morning, and my smtp server hung,
> times out. So I used my secondary gmail account to send messages. I sent
> an email to Asmallorange asking for help, and got this reply:
> 
> Unfortunately the primary IP of andrea.asmallorange.com (108.165.20.46) has been null routed to mitigate a DDoS attack, this null route will be removed very soon, in the meantime you should be able to use your domain name 'pcartwright.com' as the incoming/outgoing mail server, let us know if you're having any trouble with that.
> 
> 
> would be nice if they would have told me this.. I can GET email ( IMAP) from that, but I just can't send.
> 

My personal server was hit late last week.  A bunch of machines in
various places (including GT which was a bit of a surprise) blasted my
server with thousands of connection attempts and subsequent disconnects.
 The thing fell over after a few hours with a kernel panic.