All servers offline for max 25 hours

[ZERO]

Another large scale DDOS attack was launched. This one was much bigger than a few weeks ago. As a result the connection has been severed.

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I have contacted support to try to see if I can get it online sooner.

[maynard]

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[ZERO]

I should note that it was aimed at the wcs server exactly the same as from a week or so ago.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

I should note that it was aimed at the wcs server exactly the same as from a week or so ago.

same ip?

[ZERO]

Well yea the attack is targeted at the ip of the wcs server. This could just be random though, normally when people are DDOSing you they tell you so that your like oh I should not have done X to Y to piss them off. However what is confusing is that we get DDOSed but without deceleration. In addition it is just the game servers and not the website. What ever it is must be very powerful or have a lot of money b/c the data size of the attacks are quite large. Perhaps though it is just some strange network hiccup and a bunch of data got miss routed.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Well yea the attack is targeted at the ip of the wcs server. This could just be random though, normally when people are DDOSing you they tell you so that your like oh I should not have done X to Y to piss them off. However what is confusing is that we get DDOSed but without deceleration. In addition it is just the game servers and not the website. What ever it is must be very powerful or have a lot of money b/c the data size of the attacks are quite large. Perhaps though it is just some strange network hiccup and a bunch of data got miss routed.

you can't tell the ip it's originating from?

[ZERO]

It would trace back to thousands of ips. This attack is a few GB/s in size it is not just the bandwidth but the number of packets. It is not possible for anything other than tier 1 servers to produce that amount of data and at a cost of thousands of dollars.

Currently they are telling me that it is going to say down for 24 hours...

[matrixninja]

Basically, some dipshit decided to spend a few g's to launch a DDOS? Wow. Those 24 hours while its down, is gonna suck xD. Hopefully it'll be up sooner.

[ZERO]

Still though I am confused why they did not attack the website too. An attack that large could take down our entire web host not just this site.

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This combined with the fact that a player would not do this b/c one they would attack the website too. Second they would also be like fuck you. The fact that no one appears to be out to get us leads me to the conclusion that another site or something is doing this covertly to hurt our traffic. However this would require some money to do and I do not see how it does not end up costing them more money to launch the attacks than we would possibly lose in people canceling admin. Also who is going to cancel admin b/c the server is getting ddosed?

I am just so confused by how random it is.

[Spasm]

Still though I am confused why they did not attack the website too. An attack that large could take down our entire web host not just this site.

So who did you piss off zero?