Part of the issue is the network you're on; you can begin to throttle connections and block them from the system with IPF and iptables; but when there's a bot net turned towards you, it's easiest to just filter from a big fucking Cisco sitting in front of your machine.

I asked him on the phone, 'why are you such a scumbag?' his answer, 'ask my mother' .....

KGB accent reduction training. In what language were you talking to him?

Talked to him in English

http://www.ddosprotection.com/

they can filter your traffic remotely then forward only legit traffic, but you still stay hosted where you are at now

Not that it matters in this case but wouldn't that kill SERPs?

No idea, i would assume flat out being down would do more damage

What you're still using DOS? 3000 unique IP's is a lot though. I've been on the end of some brute force cracking attacks but never that many IP's.

this fucker is back at it again today, sites are down...going on day 3 of the attacks now

fuck, these guys need to be imprisoned mate, you deserved this bump!
Good luck getting your hands on this fucker!

Damn man, I really hope you get this worked out.

Why not tell this guy that he's not going to get any money doing this, and let him know theres lots of guys willing to pay him to do that exact thing to illegal tube and warez sites. I'm sure theres tons of people willing to set up some sort of covert 'Don't steal my stuff, or else' type system.

Nice, I wonder how much that costs.

interesting

I wonder what a guy like that would charge if say you provide a url and he does the rest?

I don't know how much that one costs..but this one: prolexic.com wanted $8,500 a month!!!! I'm sure that one is comparably priced.
I'm in week number two of a HUGE DDOS attack on my shit. Fortunately we jumped on it and came up with our own solutions to keep ourselves up.
And now I've been thinking...
I'm gonna monetize the fucking attack. Now that I've got it under control....we're gonna filter it out and then sell the traffic to one of these bullshit traffic brokers! LOL!
Fuck it. Might as well make money off the guy trying to shut you down. :winkwink: