' Wrote:No, they shouldn't be the same providers. It's even a different 'city'. But yeah, I'll make it clear to them but from what I've heard a while before, they already know about it.
The forum did went down a couple of times due to 'too many connections'. Don't know if that was a hack or just us who have nothing to do with the server down.
Quote:The forum did went down a couple of times due to 'too many connections'. Don't know if that was a hack or just us who have nothing to do with the server down.
Probably just everyone checking the forums.
It'd be amazingly simple to keep the forums down 24/7 (well, slight exaggeration, but point is he could do it if he wanted to), but so far, not a sign of it. He would've done it by now if he wanted to, don't panic.
' Wrote:The forum did went down a couple of times due to 'too many connections'. Don't know if that was a hack or just us who have nothing to do with the server down.
' Wrote:Probably just everyone checking the forums.
It'd be amazingly simple to keep the forums down 24/7 (well, slight exaggeration, but point is he could do it if he wanted to), but so far, not a sign of it. He would've done it by now if he wanted to, don't panic.
' Wrote:Hmkay, curiosity's getting the best of me:
-So, who DoSed the place up exactly? Do we know? Sorry, if it's already mentioned, 26 pages and all that.
We're still not sure.
' Wrote:-Why'd he DoS us again? Former player with a grudge, kid on an ego trip, etc?
His 'hobby' is attacking roleplaying websites and game servers. It isn't just about us, we're just an easy target.
' Wrote:-Why hasn't he tried DoSing the forums? Even with the mysql querylimit.
Because he can't. The forum host isn't vulnerable to the DDoS he's using.
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
' Wrote:Hmkay, curiosity's getting the best of me:
-So, who DoSed the place up exactly? Do we know? Sorry, if it's already mentioned, 26 pages and all that.
If it was done right, it's impossible to tell with a jumble of backscatter and spoofed IPs. LEOs are gonna have to take care of that.
' Wrote:-Why'd he DoS us again? Former player with a grudge, kid on an ego trip, etc?
They said it was 'for the lulz,' this is what happens when script-kiddies rootkit some bots and can't think of a funner target.
' Wrote:-Why hasn't he tried DoSing the forums? Even with the mysql querylimit.
This is harder said than done, I'm not sure if this is a dedicated box or not, but if it's on a shared host and they DOS it, that will knock out more than one site and they will have one very VERY angry web host after them. Plus most web hosts' load balancers will filter out illegitimate requests that are trying to DOS a server. The search page intentionally bottlenecks traffic, so that would be impossible to degrade service with. I've never heard of an SQL server being overloaded, although I'm sure it could be done, from my understand they're built to handle like... the whole everything at once.
99 bugs in my Java Code, 99 bugs in my Code,
Fix one bug and compile again,
283 bugs in my Java Code.