Comments on: DDoS Attacks Take Down What.cd, BTN and PTP BitTorrent Trackers https://torrentfreak.com/ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: John Maguire /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1190754 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:58:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1190754 Not sure what your point was, but it’s a bit ironic given you seem to be unaware of the differences between “then” and “than.”

]]> By: Knowitall /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1182539 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:59:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1182539 Though it became that issue later but initially it wasn’t.

]]> By: Runn Overdrive /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1180739 Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:32:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1180739 I’m an avid what.cd user myself and I didn’t know there was any reason at all even for a boring pedant to care about the capitalization of it.

I just google image searched what.cd and most of the images show it in all lowercase. It doesn’t look to me like capitalization is important. I think he’s just being a twat.

]]> By: DDoS Attack Takes Down EZTV /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1179492 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:35:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1179492 […] This is not the first site that was taken down by a DDoS attack this week. Several private trackers suffered the same fate. […]

]]> By: Josh Enders /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1177717 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:01:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1177717 Perfectly reasonable question. This won’t be satisfying but unfortunately, I can’t discuss the details of this attack.

Here’s the best practices KB article that outlines security guidelines [1]. Users are also encouraged to block all IPs not listed on our backend IPs page [2]

To get the full benefit of CloudFlare, site owners should be proxying BitTorrent HTTP announce traffic through CloudFlare as well as their main website. CloudFlare is capable of proxying traffic across a variety of ports [3]. This will reduce load and bandwidth consumption significantly on trackers and provide DDoS protection against attackers.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170166-General-website-security-guidelines
[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/ips
[3] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169156-Which-ports-will-CloudFlare-work-with-

]]> By: doofus /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1177450 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:24:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1177450 so why isn’t cloudflare keeping what and PTP online? (no, seriously, I’m really curious, thanks!)

]]> By: Josh Enders /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1177297 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:30:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1177297 Disclaimer: I work for CloudFlare.

CloudFlare is built on open technologies similar to the way uTorrent is closed source but follows the BitTorrent specification. [1] Many of our projects are available on GitHub for peer review and collaboration. [2][3] Take a few minutes and check out our blog. You’ll find that we’re actually very outspoken and transparent about how we do business. [4] I challenge you to find a more transparent company with a similar offering.

As far as performance, we operate 24 datacenters world wide [5] and use a routing methodology called AnyCast [6] which reduces round trip times by routing traffic to the datacenter nearest to your visitors. This architecture is immensely more scalable than the way most trackers operate currently with a unicasted IP address and single server. We’ve spent millions of dollars building the most robust network capable of sustaining the largest DDoS attacks the internet has ever seen. [7]

Outages due to DDoS are a solved problem. Don’t take my word for it, the product is free. Try it for yourself.

[1] http://www.utorrent.com/help/faq#faq2
[2] https://github.com/cloudflare
[3] http://blog.cloudflare.com/keeping-our-open-source-promise
[4] http://blog.cloudflare.com/what-cloudflare-logs
[5] http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
[7] http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

]]> By: guest /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1176999 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:39:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1176999 Error 522 means that the request
was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn’t
finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is
hogging resources.

]]> By: Jason Priestley /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1176911 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:31:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1176911 CloudFlare is proprietary and scales like dog shit.

]]> By: Sharkey /ddos-attacks-take-down-what-cd-btn-and-ptp-bittorrent-trackers-140106/#comment-1176728 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:55:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=81771#comment-1176728 It was @Sil3ntHill for a few days, but Twitter suspended that one too.

I have been praying all week for him to be literally fucked to pieces by a pack of wild homosexuals.

What a completely useless cunt.

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