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Hello! I've been looking into hosting game servers in home, but not want to worry about getting DDoS'd. I've been trying to make a GRE tunnel for the past couple days with my NFO VDS being connected to my home network.
I followed some guides and I'll write out what I did ---
sudo modprobe ip_gre lsmod | grep gre
sudo ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre remote 123.123.123.124 local 123.123.123.123 ttl 255
sudo ip link set gre1 up
sudo ip addr add 11.11.11.1/24 dev gre1
sudo modprobe ip_gre lsmod | grep gre
sudo ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local123.123.123.124 remote 123.123.123.123 ttl 255
sudo ip link set gre1 up
sudo ip addr add 11.11.11.2/24 dev gre1
I can't ping either side, is there a way to troubleshoot this or am I doing something completely wrong? Any help is appreciate, couldn't find a whole lot of documentation on this.
Hi Edge, I read the ToS and made a ticket about it. Since I'm using my home network with the NFO VPS I was told that's allowed, since it's not going to another host.
I will have to read the request, but what you're describing (hosting at home and using us as a DDoS filter) is intended to not be allowed. In your case, the "other host" would be your machine at home, hosting your server and connected to a different ISP (your ISP).
We do not market ourselves as a DDoS mitigation service and do not want to be used solely for that purpose. DDoS mitigation is simply a requirement for all hosting nowadays, and so it has to be a secondary feature here.
I would recommend that you run your game server directly on an unmanaged VDS. This will give you full control and a higher level of performance than you'd see with a tunnel to your home.
Edge100x wrote:I will have to read the request, but what you're describing (hosting at home and using us as a DDoS filter) is intended to not be allowed. In your case, the "other host" would be your machine at home, hosting your server and connected to a different ISP (your ISP).
We do not market ourselves as a DDoS mitigation service and do not want to be used solely for that purpose. DDoS mitigation is simply a requirement for all hosting nowadays, and so it has to be a secondary feature here.
I would recommend that you run your game server directly on an unmanaged VDS. This will give you full control and a higher level of performance than you'd see with a tunnel to your home.
That's really really unfortunate.. well I guess if some things are too good to be true then they usually are. I would get a dedicated server but I don't have that money to drop per month. I guess it's back to finding reliable hosts to do this with. Thanks for the info.
I don't understand, why not just purchase a two core (linux) perhaps install a gui if you don't like to deal with command line. You can probably get two servers running off of that depending on the mods and game.
