Reasons for Downtime.

[Jingeh 278]

I think that we should all build a dojo where we would be taught martial arts then get Vaq to pinpoint their ip and we Beat their asses down!

Sound Good?

:P

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

I think that we should all build a dojo where we would be taught martial arts then get Vaq to pinpoint their ip and we Beat their asses down!

Sound Good?

:P

Easier way: buy guns :P jk

[Canadianwarrior 26]

What the status of law enforcement or the isp shutting down their line?

Has vaq identified the country of origin of the attacks?

Canadianwarrior

[Estellan 7]

If you go make them right now, I'll call. There is no "Internet police"

I am 99% sure he was joking Hawk hahah

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

I am 99% sure he was joking Hawk hahah

I know :D

[Tygrathan 2]

The DDoS attacks came from the 90% that didn't get accepted at the first try and ragequitted. :P

[Shuness 24]

I'm still somewhat confused on what exactly DDoS is. I assume it's a kind of hacking trick, or something. But this isn't just idiots opening doors, is it?

*Is a newb at computer lingo.

[Estellan 7]

More than likely it's Warner Brothers due to us "borrowing" the Lord of the Rings type name. Wouldn't put it past em!

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

I'm still somewhat confused on what exactly DDoS is. I assume it's a kind of hacking trick, or something. But this isn't just idiots opening doors, is it?

*Is a newb at computer lingo.

I posted a youtube video on the first page or so explaining it

[Aerinyes 402]

I'm still somewhat confused on what exactly DDoS is. I assume it's a kind of hacking trick, or something. But this isn't just idiots opening doors, is it?

*Is a newb at computer lingo.

DOS is Denial of Service. It used to be you could go into the command prompt and mess with your buddies still on Dial-up by pinging them until they were disconnected. Dial-up modems back in the day were pretty weak to handle such a response.

When broadband took root, DOS sorta went away. What replaced it was DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service. This is a group of computers that perform a DOS all at once from different locations, sometimes over a large or even global area.

While one computer could not hope to DOS a server these days, what attackers will do is use a botnet. A botnet is a group of computers that are compromised, meaning they've got a virus or trojan that places them in the botnet. There is alot of users out there that aren't savvy with computers and click emails they shouldn't, go to websites they shouldn't, or plugin Flash USB into an infected computer and bring it home.

This botnet is given a command and all computer respond at the same time. LotC can handle 250 users at a time, but imagine if 2500, or even 10,000 'users' attempted to connect hundreds of times a second. Well something like that is happening. And its pretty hard to stop.

Something like this doesn't phase big websites like Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo because of their server infrastructure is hardened against it. They have the bandwidth and clustered servers to handle unimaginable large loads. It takes hundreds or thousands of linked botnets to even think about denting them. Unfortunately LotC doesn't have that sort of hardware (would probably take 250 bedrock VIPs to afford it).

So what we're having to do is wait it out for all the ISPs with infected computers to detect the attack and shut it down. But if there's thousands of infected PCs, possibly with a different ISP each.. thats going to be a long wait. Thankfully Vaq is being proactive and is actually contacting such rather then wait for them to detect it. Its still a long and arduous process though.

What gets me is the fact that someone is wasting a botnet to bring this little server down. I wouldn't think it'd be easy to acquire a botnet, and that it would be time consuming. And when you launch it, its pretty much a one shot I'd think since the computers running it would either lag, or get detected through malwarebytes, virus scanners, and security essentials. But then again I've never set up anything like that. Only savvy on this stuff myself due to a network security class I'm taking in college. I'd offer advice but I think Vaq knows far more then I do. In other words, I know what and why, but not exactly how.

It does seem like the attacks are domestic, which means it can be dealt with, and even eventually stopped if the attacker is apprehended (this stuff is very illegal, not only can LotC take litigation, but the ISPs and owners of the PCs too). If this was an overseas attacker, this would get muddy real quick.

[danic 352]

Did he DDoS stop? Because last night I had my good ol' zero lag server back =D

[Shuness 24]

DOS is Denial of Service. It used to be you could go into the command prompt and mess with your buddies still on Dial-up by pinging them until they were disconnected. Dial-up modems back in the day were pretty weak to handle such a response.

When broadband took root, DOS sorta went away. What replaced it was DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service. This is a group of computers that perform a DOS all at once from different locations, sometimes over a large or even global area.

While one computer could not hope to DOS a server these days, what attackers will do is use a botnet. A botnet is a group of computers that are compromised, meaning they've got a virus or trojan that places them in the botnet. There is alot of users out there that aren't savvy with computers and click emails they shouldn't, go to websites they shouldn't, or plugin Flash USB into an infected computer and bring it home.

This botnet is given a command and all computer respond at the same time. LotC can handle 250 users at a time, but imagine if 2500, or even 10,000 'users' attempted to connect hundreds of times a second. Well something like that is happening. And its pretty hard to stop.

Something like this doesn't phase big websites like Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo because of their server infrastructure is hardened against it. They have the bandwidth and clustered servers to handle unimaginable large loads. It takes hundreds or thousands of linked botnets to even think about denting them. Unfortunately LotC doesn't have that sort of hardware (would probably take 250 bedrock VIPs to afford it).

So what we're having to do is wait it out for all the ISPs with infected computers to detect the attack and shut it down. But if there's thousands of infected PCs, possibly with a different ISP each.. thats going to be a long wait. Thankfully Vaq is being proactive and is actually contacting such rather then wait for them to detect it. Its still a long and arduous process though.

What gets me is the fact that someone is wasting a botnet to bring this little server down. I wouldn't think it'd be easy to acquire a botnet, and that it would be time consuming. And when you launch it, its pretty much a one shot I'd think since the computers running it would either lag, or get detected through malwarebytes, virus scanners, and security essentials. But then again I've never set up anything like that. Only savvy on this stuff myself due to a network security class I'm taking in college. I'd offer advice but I think Vaq knows far more then I do. In other words, I know what and why, but not exactly how.

It does seem like the attacks are domestic, which means it can be dealt with, and even eventually stopped if the attacker is apprehended (this stuff is very illegal, not only can LotC take litigation, but the ISPs and owners of the PCs too). If this was an overseas attacker, this would get muddy real quick.

Thank you, sir.