Pledge for new beginning

[douglas1999]

What the fuck is a DOS attack anyway? Can somebody explain roughly what it is and why I've literally never heard of it outside of this emulated everquest server? It's annoying having no idea what it is and just hearing "welp, DOSed again!".

[President]

massively pinging a server/ip to overload it.

[Halladar]

Tovok put some links to it on the previous page. As I understand it, you basically put demands on the servers resources through various means (discussed in the wiki entry most briefly).

The resource in this case was bandwidth. The hoster dropped this server because the fact that someone had it in for the server affected their normal operations. The hoster is apparently not equipped to handle something like this, and a hoster that could is much more expensive.

Basically that is what I have gathered. In addition it is very difficult to determine who launched the attack. I also think it would be very difficult to get this prosecuted depending on who and where the attack came from.

That is what I have gathered.

[Rallyd]

Lance check your PM's on forums! sorry for invading thread guys [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[yaaaflow]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What the fuck is a DOS attack anyway? Can somebody explain roughly what it is and why I've literally never heard of it outside of this emulated everquest server? It's annoying having no idea what it is and just hearing "welp, DOSed again!".

DDOS stands for 'distributed denial of service'. So a DOS attack would be someone sending tremendous amounts of data through to the site they're attacking in order to make it not function properly. a DDOS is the same thing done from many different computers at many different locations, which is a ton harder to prevent.

[Seuriu]

fuck that makes me so mad

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by yaaaflow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DDOS stands for 'distributed denial of service'. So a DOS attack would be someone sending tremendous amounts of data through to the site they're attacking in order to make it not function properly. a DDOS is the same thing done from many different computers at many different locations, which is a ton harder to prevent.

Hahah wow, so people actually got angry enough over emulated everquest to coordinate a widespread "attack" in order to bork the server? What a bunch of virgins.

[Aeolwind]

If Nilbog is game, I'd def be down for rolling again.

[Soapninja]

so are our characters gone?

[Aeolwind]

Not going to comment at this juncture till I've had time to confer with the others.