ddos question

[mattb]

Are there any programs to block ddos attacks for windows such as APF, ddos deflect for linux?

Possible to automatically filter and block most basic attacks of ddosing.

[Edge100x]

I am not familiar with any personally. What sort of DDoSes are you seeing?

[mattb]

Someone purposely trying to bring the server down which they are doing, the screen freezes and server crashes.

[Edge100x]

If the server is crashing, that sounds like more of a normal DoS. What game is this?

[mattb]

Counter strike: source

[Edge100x]

Give us a ring about that the next time you see one of these, and we'll see whether we can filter it on our end. With a VDS, we have some additional filtering options that our regular game servers don't have.

[mattb]

Can I ask what kind of filtering? does it log crashes like these in logs or anything?

[Edge100x]

I would manually look at the flows and determine whether a filter might work to block only the malicious traffic. A filter could block certain packet sizes, for instance, or those from a few IPs, or packets containing certain strings.