isoHunt DDoS attack
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“Bastards!”
That’s isoHunt poster ryhed on the news the Canadian P2P and BitTorrent search engine had been subjected to a DDoS attack.
Founded in 2003 by Gary Fung, it’s name comes from the term ISO image, “used to describe a 1:1 soft copy of a CD or DVD, a format often used in peer-to-peer file distribution,” says the Wikipedia, going on »»»
On February 23 2006, the MPAA issued a press release stating they were prosecuting isoHunt for copyright infringement. A year later, January 16 2007, isoHunt was taken off-line, stating “Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice.”
After a major hardware upgrade, the site resumed normal operation by January 22, 2007 although experiencing several brief periods of subsequent downtime due to server changes.
Then, “Starting a couple hours before midnight GMT on 10-Jan-2009 we started receiving a lot more requests and traffic than we would normally have at that time of day, which topped out at 8500 CPS (connections per second) before we could get in, figure out what was happening and act to mitigate it,” says isoHunt
Thankfully, the folks that attacked us the first time made it fairly easy for us to locate and filter their traffic, since I don’t think there are many people living in South America or Asia who legitimately run their browsers in Russian Smile
And then »»»
Update: it turns out that the /js/rss hits aren’t actually a DDoS like I originally thought, and is instead the fault of one of those silly IE “toolbars” that refused to respect the TTL we set in our RSS feed. Currently testing a fix, and if the fix works, I’ll be sure to turn RSS back on again.
In September, isoHunt went from defense to attack in the online file-sharing wars.
“In a landmark case, it`s suing Canadian RIAA clone the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), asking a court in British Columbia to make the first ruling on whether or not BitTorrent search engines should be held liable for .torrent files that might link to copyrighted data,” said p2pnet.
DoS attack – DoS attacks or why isoHunt has been unstable, January 12, 2009
p2pnet – isoHUNT sues record labels` CRIA, September 6, 2008
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