All servers offline for max 25 hours

[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?

[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.

[Evil]

lol...no wonder I couldn't see any of the servers online...I was thinking that I might of messed up my profile or something...