Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group? (github.com)
from kiol@discuss.online to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 17:00
https://discuss.online/post/31326106

cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/31326102

Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I’m wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I’m wondering about practical execution.

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EarMaster@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 17:28 next collapse

You may want to change the title and include the word “protection”…

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Nov 18:15 next collapse

I was about to start my lucrative career in DDoS but, alas, I’ve been thwarted.

kiol@discuss.online on 30 Nov 15:59 collapse

Done

Shadow@lemmy.ca on 29 Nov 19:26 next collapse

Doesn’t really make sense for self hosting. Filtering the traffic is pointless if the traffic just completely overwhelms your internet.

Also generally self hosters aren’t running bgp with their own asn.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 29 Nov 19:38 next collapse

Imagine a federated system that allows everyone to host this and everyone can vote on a designated target

Ticketmaster is being a dick? Vote! Ticketmaster is now ddossed until it makes hard changes to its policies and brings prices down to like 10% of what it is today

Boeing continues to focus on money only, not safety? Ddos until it changes

The Cheeto is murdering innocent people again? The entire world will ddos everything US until he’s removed.

I know this won’t ever happen, but I see this as potentially useful in making the world a better place for everyone

rollin@piefed.social on 29 Nov 20:43 next collapse

Not sure if this is a joke, but if not this software is to help protect *against* ddos attacks, not for running them 😂

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works on 29 Nov 22:01 collapse

The title also had me confused.

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus on 29 Nov 22:02 next collapse

it’s called Gatekeeper, and you think it’s a project hosted on github for DDoSing people?

DaGeek247@fedia.io on 30 Nov 02:37 collapse

What you're talking about has existed for decades at this point. Most grey/black hat forums rightfully ban collective ddos tools when they see them. Turns out that the difference between duplicating a copyrighted work, and actively attacking a private server are vastly different, legally speaking, and get prosecuted a lot more forcefully when found.

CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Nov 20:06 next collapse

Seems like this system relies on defending from well-defined entrypoints to the network. I’m not sure how a group of enthusiasts could use this unless they centralize their systems.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 29 Nov 20:18 next collapse

Holy setup batman. Was thinking it was going to be another container I spin up, but it’s enabling kernel modules, needs IOMMU, needs a ton of setup and then it looks like you still have to compile it? For now at least that’s above my needs

faythofdragons@slrpnk.net on 30 Nov 03:07 collapse

The first? Wasn’t LOIC open souce?

slacktoid@lemmy.ml on 30 Nov 03:13 next collapse

This is to protect from ddos, not do the ddos

kiol@discuss.online on 30 Nov 15:57 collapse

Probably, that is simple what it says on their github