{"id":84,"date":"2013-11-02T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/326@jodohost.com\/\/blog\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T04:02:00","slug":"disabling-ping-on-windows-server-2008-to-stop-ddos-attacks-on-the-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/02\/disabling-ping-on-windows-server-2008-to-stop-ddos-attacks-on-the-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling ping on Windows Server 2008 to stop DDOS attacks on the server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To disable ping on Windows Server 2008 R2, please follow the steps below:<\/p>\n<p>1) Go to the Start Menu.<br \/>2) Select Administrative Tools >> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security -> the firewall will open in a new window.<br \/>2) In this window, you will see &#8216;Inbound Rules&#8217; &#8211; click on it.<br \/>3) Under Inbound Rules, please search for &#8216;File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request &#8211; ICMPv4-IN)&#8217;.<br \/>4) Right click on &#8216;File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request &#8211; ICMPv4-IN)&#8217; and then select Disable Rule.<\/p>\n<p>Once ping requests have been disabled, the ICMP flood goes down and services except ping work fine.<br \/>To re-enable the ping, select Enable Rule in the last step.<\/p>\n<p> ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To disable ping on Windows Server 2008 R2, please follow the steps below: 1) Go to the Start Menu.2) Select Administrative Tools >> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security -> the firewall will open in a new window.2) In this window, you will see &#8216;Inbound Rules&#8217; &#8211; click on it.3) Under Inbound Rules, please search for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}