Getting DDOSSED via Server IP - How to hide IP in notification email headers etc?
 

Hi,

I'm getting DDOSSED to the hilt. Now using cloudflare and have a new IP for the forums. It appears the IP can be revealed still as it's in the email headers.

How can I mask this or prevent this from happening?

As at the moment I have had to disable all email features including email to friend, contact us forms, notification emails and even human verification for new users.

Can't leave busy forums (x4) like that for long.

Can anybody help? Ever had this before?

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Or get in touch with your host they will be able to help better than this plugin

You can't really prevent this from happening if you send the emails from your own server, it will always contain the originating IP in the email headers as far as I know. I make use of http://www.critsend.com/ to hide my server IP, a (paid) SMTP relay.

Note that you can also easily grab the server IP using the remote image uploading feature @avatar and signature upload.

Okay I'll disable those features now too.

And I'll take a look at critsend.

Will Google Apps / Gmail SMTP service (which you pay for) not do it?

Is there a way to get around the uploading feature showing the IP?

The only option would be deleting that functionality, the remote upload basically makes your server contact the URL they enter. Whoever has their own server could easily check their logs for your server IP.

Any SMTP relay server should hide your server IP, I have no experience with Google Apps though. I tried Gmail SMTP service a long time ago and my account got blocked in no-time.

I've disabled any uploading for newer usergroups. Only established members have the option now.

I'll need to get my head around this SMTP and see what leaves the IP in the headers.

--------------- Added [DATE]1404470353[/DATE] at [TIME]1404470353[/TIME] ---------------

Do you mean when we link to an image and then allow remote hosting of it?
Does that need removing?

Get Google Apps for Business. It's $5/mo and solves your IP problem.

I'm talking about this feature: "Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website".
That function may leak your server IP.

All someone has to do is get a dns check or a whois check to reveal the sites ip address. Doing a simple ping via the windows command console also reveals the site's ip. At this point you need to look into ddos protection services or get a stronger server and configure a firewall addon for it.

How exactly are you getting a ddos attack? How many ip's are showing up in your server security log? Which port are they attacking?