Server Down

[Sponge]

Wouldn't you just get the IP(s) of a zombie computer? Gonna go attack some innocents?

[stormlord]

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

Its prolly someone that SOE has employed doing it.

Like a hit man? I doubt it. But hilarious [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I don't understand why someone would do this. If it was nerd rage, why would they keep doing it? How can you stay angry for so long? They need to figure out how to get the right protection or how to nail the person or persons that're doing this.

This reminds me of when they say website addresses on radio talk shows. The web sites almost always get shutdown because of massive traffic. I remember this on Art Bell.

[jilena]

No : (

[Torros]

lmao @ people thinking Sony gives a crap about our little emulation server!

This is all happening because of human drama. Someone got pissed for a specific reason and now he is dedicating his time and money to screwing over the source of the issue.

The only other conclusion I can think of is probably way out in left field. I trust P99.

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[Kaleb]

Don't you wish we could play right now?

I do

[Lyrren]

Strangely enough most of you (sorry, but I'm including you Rogean here) seem to be assuming that the person undertaking this attack has a personal beef against the server, this seems highly unlikely. Your average EQ Classic player would not have a personal botnet army at his disposal ready to launch a DDoS attack the moment his character got banned.

Ok it's not impossible, but as I said highly unlikely.

What is much more likely is that some highly antisocial individual is trying to pick an easy target he can attack, some target which has minimal resources with which to respond, that target is us. He wont attack a commercial enterprise because he is too afraid of the repercussions.

Currently he is bragging to his hacker mates that he has forced the Project1999 server offline (sorry Rogean, you are caught between a rock and a hard place here). It doesn't really matter who or what Project1999 is, Project 1999 has become a victim of its own success. If we didn't care then his attack would have no value and he would quickly move on to another target.

So what to do?

Unless you have a foolproof plan with which to effectively combat these DDoS attacks, put the server back online. If he cannot claim to have forced the server offline then you remove the purpose of his attacks. Eventually he will get bored, much sooner than your loyal EQ classic players. For a week, maybe two weeks, playing on the server will be unpleasant, but those who care will remain and after that he will be gone.

But the longer you keep the server offline, the longer he will continue his attack, and possibly his hacker friends will join in (if they haven't already).

[maultar]

How much can some appliance be for firewall? F5 or whatever? Gotta be a simple fix otherwise companies all over would have this grief.

[Bentheb]

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

Strangely enough most of you (sorry, but I'm including you Rogean here) seem to be assuming that the person undertaking this attack has a personal beef against the server, this seems highly unlikely. Your average EQ Classic player would not have a personal botnet army at his disposal ready to launch a DDoS attack the moment his character got banned.

Ok it's not impossible, but as I said highly unlikely.

What is much more likely is that some highly antisocial individual is trying to pick an easy target he can attack, some target which has minimal resources with which to respond, that target is us. He wont attack a commercial enterprise because he is too afraid of the repercussions.

Currently he is bragging to his hacker mates that he has forced the Project1999 server offline (sorry Rogean, you are caught between a rock and a hard place here). It doesn't really matter who or what Project1999 is, Project 1999 has become a victim of its own success. If we didn't care then his attack would have no value and he would quickly move on to another target.

So what to do?

Unless you have a foolproof plan with which to effectively combat these DDoS attacks, put the server back online. If he cannot claim to have forced the server offline then you remove the purpose of his attacks. Eventually he will get bored, much sooner than your loyal EQ classic players. For a week, maybe two weeks, playing on the server will be unpleasant, but those who care will remain and after that he will be gone.

But the longer you keep the server offline, the longer he will continue his attack, and possibly his hacker friends will join in (if they haven't already).

The problem with this, as it has been stated before in this thread is, the bandwith spikes cost the devs money.

no clue how much a dos attack ends up ends up costing them but when the attacker stopped doing just short bursts and went all out im sure it started adding up fast.

So there really is no practical way for them to do this.

[Kaleb]

Am I worng in thinking these DDoS attacks usually happen around 11 - 12 PM EST on weeknights and randomly on weekends?

[maultar]

Near the end it was much earlier than 11 on weeknights. You're thinking Asians aren't you :P