[HN Gopher] My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
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My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
Author : dguo
Score : 61 points
Date : 2024-04-14 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| ro_bit wrote:
| So that's why they want us to microchip our pets!
| swampthinker wrote:
| And here I thought your somehow hooked up a cat feeder to alerts.
|
| Regardless, very cute - what's your cat's name?
| mmahemoff wrote:
| I thought it was going to be a home server that went into
| overdrive, heating the room your cat was in or knocking out the
| aircon.
|
| Anyway, better experience than being woken up by a dozen SMS
| alerts.
| jameshart wrote:
| As always it's easy to overlook the insider threat. Grammatically
| dubious extortion emai? Bitcoin ransom? Did it not occur to you
| that the cat was _the one behind the attack_?
| ordu wrote:
| Yeah, cats are notoriously bad at grammar.
| smarks wrote:
| I CAN HAZ DOS ATTAK
| shawn_w wrote:
| The call is coming from inside the house!
| cocoa19 wrote:
| And I often wonder if on call is justifiable "because you make
| more money than most professionals".
| tossandthrow wrote:
| as with most roles, I think it is negotiable. You have your
| professional leverage, expected pay and grit. you need to
| balance these things.
|
| Also, if you can get an equivalent role with less requirements
| such as being on call, then I guess it is just a question of
| grabbing it!
| hughesjj wrote:
| I mean, you have oncall, it's just permanent oncall.
| jart wrote:
| It's so easy to crush ddos with token buckets that usually the
| only thing I need my cat to wake me for is when my Discord gets
| raided.
| avg_dev wrote:
| never heard of this before. I looked it up
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bucket
|
| I think this would be like a firewall or ingress thing that
| would drop packets that resulted in excess load before they
| make it to the application server.
| Denvercoder9 wrote:
| > we didn't have a formal on-call rotation yet. That was a
| deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team
| was good about just collectively keeping an eye out for urgent
| alerts.
|
| That seems like a terrible solution. Yeah, being on-call is
| painful, but at least I know beforehand when I'll be on-call and
| get compensated for it. Always being expected to keep an eye out
| for urgent alerts just sucks all around.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| Yeah that sounds like on call all the time, that makes no
| sense.
| lmm wrote:
| Maybe the phone was silent but still flashing a screen? Mine does
| that in that mode.
|
| At my first job we had a guy who could spot incidents coming on
| the monitoring dashboard before they happened. He never managed
| to explain or even understand what he was looking for and no-one
| else picked it up, but he would just see something that made him
| say things were odd, and most of the time we'd get an alert
| shortly after.
| ahmedfromtunis wrote:
| > With horrible grammar
|
| Ah, the days before ChatGPT!
|
| On a more serious note, do you think there will ever be a way to
| stop ddos attacks once and for all?
|
| While all threats are bad, ddos is the most lame type of attacks
| there is; no special skill or knowledge are needed, just load a
| script or, heck, pay someone who'll execute it for you as a
| service.
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| Is this an ad for AWS?
| avg_dev wrote:
| > But in 9 years, that was the only time she did it while I was
| sleeping.
|
| ... that you know of
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