I consider myself a pretty likeable guy but occasionally, I run across someone with a chip on their shoulder or someone who has a whole lot of IRC bots and is trigger-happy. And then there are the people who don’t like me because they don’t like my friends. As such, my home connection has been pushed off the net three times in the last 18 months by what’s called a Flood-style Denial-of-Service attack.
In each case, all I had to do was disconnect and reconnect to throw them off by changing my IP address. (Well, and avoid whatever method they were using to find my IP address) But last time, I was sleeping all day and my brother woke me up at 3PM because he needed the net back.
Long story short, I wrote something to automatically trigger a disconnect-reconnect cycle when I get DoSed. If you’re a geek, check out NoDoS in the Python section of my main site. If not, just think about this; my home network should now be able to survive without any maintenance for over a year without falling to viruses, spyware, or hack attacks as long as I keep paying my internet bill. (Well, and replace any failed hardware but that’s still beyond the reach of self-repairing programs.)
I think that means it’s more secure than most corporate networks, wouldn’t you agree? (Note: User training is also an important part of my security strategy.)
NoDoS 1.0 alpha by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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