cloudflare hosting a ddos service?

Wed Jul 27 01:55:39 UTC 2016

CloudFlare will claim they are not hosting the problem. They are just hosting the web page that lets you pay for or points at or otherwise directs you to the problem.

The actual source of packets is some other IP address. Therefore, they can keep hosting the web page. It is not sending the actual [spam|DDoS|hack|etc.], right? So stop asking them to do something about it!

Whether you think that is the proper way to provide service on the Internet is left as an exercise to the reader.

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TTFN,
patrick

> On Jul 26, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Mike <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    So vbooter.org's dns and web is hosted by cloudflare?
> 
> "Using vBooter you can take down home internet connections, websites and game servers such us Minecraft, XBOX Live, PSN and many more."
> 
>    dig -t ns vbooter.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.8-Ubuntu <<>> -t ns vbooter.org
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62177
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;vbooter.org.            IN    NS
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> vbooter.org.        21599    IN    NS    rick.ns.cloudflare.com.
> vbooter.org.        21599    IN    NS    amy.ns.cloudflare.com.
> 
> dig -t a www.vbooter.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.8-Ubuntu <<>> -t a www.vbooter.org
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34920
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.vbooter.org.        IN    A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.vbooter.org.    299    IN    CNAME    vbooter.org.
> vbooter.org.        299    IN    A    104.28.13.7
> vbooter.org.        299    IN    A    104.28.12.7
> 
> 
>    Can anyone from cloudflare answer me why this fits with your business model?
> 
> Mike-