A call to (nerdy) arms

[trukk]

No clue what is really going on here but if I had to guess, I'd say just plain UDP flooding.

UDP is connectionless, meaning it's one way from the sender to the P99 server. This allows the source IP to be spoofed, thus a single host can pretend to be sending from a few thousand different IP's making blocking very hard.

Most good ISP's will have spoof protection turned on, but it only takes a handful of zombied hosts that don't have the protection on to overwhelm the server.

I would assume that the EQ client uses some UDP connections back to the server, which the port they are spoofing on. You can;t block that port, because it is how the legit clients work.

This is all just a wild guess, but probably pretty close.

-Chris