Anonx Update

[AnonXO]

I have received messages from a few AnonX users concerned about the Iran DOS attack. Here is a breif summary of what happened.


The Iran clients (100+ users) contracted me out for the purpose of internet bibles. I beleived them. I have no reason not to. But they could have been hackers or using the connection for God know what and noone would have known.
Saying that US government informed me that the Iran government raided some of
the homes and found porn on the PCs. The Iran government assumes that they download the porn by using Anonx. No conceret proof was found.

The Iran government blocks porn, internet bibles, and proxy sites in general. They blocked the connection to the AnonX server baised on the large amount of internet bandwidth used. They didn't know what the connection was or was not. Iran over policed the connection. Everytime they blocked the Anonx proxy ip from Iran routers I gave the clients new ip addresses to use. Since I have 32 classes C around the world we were able to hop them around for months. Finially, the Iran government became very angery and decided to stop the reactionary tactics. They issued a denial of service attack from their country on every AnonX IP address they could find. At the time we only had 2X as much bandwidth needed to support all customers at 1.5Mbs. Today we have 12X as much bandwidth needed and many DOS security mechanisms in place.


--AnonXO


If you want more detial let me know and I will write up an offical press release and post in on PRWEB.

[SeK612]

Are you saying that Iran themselves issued an attack on you (as in the govenment not just a group of people attacking togather from Iraq)? Whats to stop them from attacking you again? If this is the response you get from less liberal countries then what happens if a similar thing happens in another middle eastern country or a place like China who also dislike what you service may be used for? What happens if someone like the RIAA starts trying to do stuff like this? What happens if the U.S government (if your based in the U.S) decides that your service may be being used for illegal activities?

[AnonXO]

There are many ways to avoid a DOS attack and I have but all them into place.

1. Increase the bandwidth to 8X what is needed
2. Reconfigured routers to notice a DOS attack an immediately ignore all traffic originating from that ip
3. Put ICMP traffic at the lowest priority and increase other "usefull traffic" to the highest prioperty. Therefore the attacks will be less effective with the more p2p users that are on.
4. Set up block list of known attackers.
5. Reconfigure server farm to load balance "usefull traffic" and dump unwanted traffic into the bit bucket
6. and a few more tricks.

[RealitY]

I finally narrowed my problem down to Zone Alarm, even after changing settings
to medium, low and even turning it off I still could not upload. I even
opened PPTP and GRE ports and even went as far as to install Zone Alarm
completely and yet I continued to have the same issues.

I recently had a an OS crash and after reinstalling decided to wait on Zone
Alarm for last. Well oddly enough all uploads with AnonX are now fine, and
thinking back I remember that all my problems started after installing Zone
Alarm. Needless to say even though I really like Zone Alarm I no longer use it.

Apparently as mentioned to me by tech support after finding the culprit that ZA manipulates CMD.exe table and sometimes setting in there do not get changed correctly. In short I always felt like my settings were on high even though they were not...

[BawA]

Originally posted by NightStalker@30 January 2004 - 07:28
99% of them are Muslim which means they have a Koran, and pray to Allah three times a day.

3 time pray is not correct, orginal and almost all muslims pray 5 times a day. th iranian muslims r little missed up in thier thoughts , they have missed up everthing in islam relgion (quran, pray,...).