Server down?

[Dartagnan]

I don't think it's fair to those who have spent a lot of time leveling and doing things although at this point I don't really care because I'd like to at least have a server to actually play on.

It would really be nice to find out from our devs what exactly is going on. I don't understand why there has been no update or explanation especially because we got updates from before.

For all we know this may not be the actual person and just someone else stirring the pot.

All this over planar loot and a mistmoore dagger? Seriously?

[Cheech]

I would hate to start over, but all in all it would be for the best. There is so much you did this, i did this crap its pathetic. I don't know who to believe with all this crap, but like i said i dont really care. This is the closest thing ive seen to classic as its gonna get. ALL this childish finger pointing is garbage. Either make a server fair or why make it at all.

Dart i think there is alot more to it then just the planar loots..

[Alveus]

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

Basically what's being done, by the sounds of it, is a protocol attack on the EQ port of the server machine. So yea, you can't block the DDoS without blocking all legitimate requests.

Unless you have an edge router with whitelisted IP addresses of verified clients, and the rest null-routed. That's the only real option I see here.

If this is being hosted with DDoS proxy protection, it's possible they might allow IP whitelisting on the proxy. I really have no idea. But then that would be a massive task, individually whitelisting all players... jesus I wouldn't wanna think about setting that up, it would take hours.

This is why i'm saying they could set up some kind of password scheme to throw your ip address on the white list. The bots wouldn't be able to enter the password.

[cassaruby]

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

How is a wipe a solution? What does it accomplish? Give me some good reasons or im not buying into it.

It's not but it's part of the human condition or at least in our society to want fairness, when the world's not really fair. so you can expect people to complain about this bullshit.

I have rights and he has more than me blah blah blah.

[Dolalin]

Alveus, that's not really feasible unless you want us all to VPN into the server, which would be obnoxious.

No, a proxy whitelist is the only way around this. People would register on the forums and have their subnet whitelisted on the proxy.

[Allizia]

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

This is why i'm saying they could set up some kind of password scheme to throw your ip address on the white list. The bots wouldn't be able to enter the password.

This would be a massive task complete with daily required maintenance. Some people play from several IPs as well. I'm not even sure it would work even then, as I don't think it's based on successful logins, but attempted log ins

[Devil]

If there is someone disgruntled enough to repeatedly DDoS the server I'm pretty sure they wouldn't give a shit if the server was wiped or not. Wouldn't accomplish anything. This dude is saying he's doing it and is going to keep doing it until Rogean basically admits to GM corruption and takes back XYZ items given 'unfairly' blah blah blah. It's a bunch of bullshit and if it's really true that this guy is doing this he needs to be caught by the host and imprisoned for being a huge faggoty douche.

[Zarniwooop]

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

you're a fucking pussy holy shit. you're THAT upset over a video game and some loot? holy fuck. lol

If even Seuriu calls you a pussy, you probably are one (as she doesn't say that stuff very often).

The end.

[Icecometus]

The obvious problems that came to light during many of the sever firsts could be fixed.

It is seems like the person doing the attacks has an issue with said problems.

Many peeps got a late start and we now have a nice stable population that is exited about playing so the early game would be even closer to how it was back in 1999.

All of us have abandoned high level characters with great gear to start again somewhere new and this would not be any different.

I would bet a great deal that if we did restart that the DDoS attacks would stop for good [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] <--- best reason

[Dolalin]

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