All servers offline for max 25 hours

[H.Bitch]

God damnit, I have nothing to do now. My Gmod Stranded server is having serious lag issues and now the only CS:S servers I go on are down.. FUCK!

[Steamer]

The cost to someone / a group with thousands of zombies is not much of a concern. With today's ISP speeds it isn't much of a cost/problem. I mean.. today... a few Gigabits of info isn't all that much combined power.

If someone is pissed and if they really wanted to hurt things everything would be shut down. Sounds like exactly what you already said, someone out there wants your traffic or it is one weird fu*k up.

[Snipe1002]

screw up or not, i love the zombie server, and now i cant do shit because some tards wanna screw with ibis traffic or w/e. Idk much about networking, my expertise is in hardware and software in the computer, not what connects it, but like steamer was saying that would be true, it wouldnt take much to bombard someone with a ton of traffic, for instance most people have 30 down and 15 up for network speeds if they love to play on the internet, possibly more depending on the isp, but lets say that everyones upload speed is 20 MBit/s , it would only take 50 people to bombard the site with garbage to clog the bandwidth at 1GBit, sounds like the work of a bunch of angry players maybe? or maybe someone has connections with Anonymous? << lol probably not, but either way it wouldnt take much with the right know how and the will to do it.

[ZERO]

Actually while your may think your internet is that fast in reality it is not. The actual effective upload speeds are much lower and relative to the number of packets sent out. This amount of data transmission requires a fairly large size bot net or servers with a good amount of bandwidth.

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I am going to be contacting them again late tonight to see if they can get the server on earlier. This way people can still play tomorrow morning and early afternoon.

[StarsMine]

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

its a DDOS, first D stands for distributed, so no.

[Blashyrkh]

Good luck Zero! Hopefully everything gets sorted out soon

[Snipe1002]

i was saying in a perfect situation lol, obviously we dont have perfect network connections, my speeds range from 5-10 down to 2-5 up, MBits anyway, i wish GBits lol. but yea DDoS attacks would do it, i did some looking around, could be some other stuff too, (cuz tossing down a grand or so seems like a waste to shut down for 1 day) like smurfing, DRDoS or you coulda just pissed off someone with a huge botnet . w/e the situation is i hope it stops cuz it is very annoying

[Foxtrot]

Well, I hope this gets resolved. Ibis is a nice community IMO.

[ZERO]

Well looks like we are going to stay fucked till tomorrow. They said that the attack is too large to open the ip early.

[H.Bitch]

Thanks For keeping us updated in the meantime zero, I'll be awaiting when I can hop on the WCS server :3