gabriel101x1 463 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Vaq owns and runs Legendary Servers. I know that, but many people seem to be under the impression he runs lord of the craft out of his basement or something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyndikate 2303 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Just block all IPs from every country except US, Canada, Europe, and the Oceanic server. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentlit 108 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Just block all IPs from every country except US, Canada, Europe, and the Oceanic server. That might work, but I wonder how many people we have that aren't from those areas.. Even so, what if it's someone from those areas who is doing this? Even so, it might be worth a try.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Availer 681 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Thanks for your suggestion. But Vaquxine is a very very capable software engineer. - The server is hosted on a proffesional dedicated server that is costing overall almost $1,000 a month. - We have tried absolutely every single form of mitigation. - This is not a simple DDoS attack. The DDoSers are using Severs not botnets, they've spoofed the ips and nullrout our connection at 100mb/s, they then spike it to 6gb/s for a few seconds to take the servers down. They're behind proxies and of course, we've contacted the authorities. These servers are also most likely USA based servers. Blocking IPs wont work. Just to answer a few question. We've exhausted every software based fix possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyndikate 2303 Share Posted September 18, 2012 That might work, but I wonder how many people we have that aren't from those areas.. Even so, what if it's someone from those areas who is doing this? Even so, it might be worth a try.. Regardless, it's a small percentage compared to the rest of the community, and unfortunately at times like this you'll have to make sacrifices. Avalier, I have an idea, but I need to send you a PM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merkaken 516 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Regardless, it's a small percentage compared to the rest of the community, and unfortunately at times like this you'll have to make sacrifices. Avalier, I have an idea, but I need to send you a PM. With all do respect I think we should avoid something like this. It wouldn't feel right to make people leave because they live in the wrong place. Sure the vast majority would benefit, but at what cost? It just plain wouldn't be fair and i'm sure other LotCers, including me, could not help but have a guilty conciouns knowing that we're safe because we excluded others in the wrong places. While this is a good option, I personally feel it just isn't right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Availer 681 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Ignore the attacks. Donate on a casual level as we have all along. Let them blow all of their daddy's precious money on DDOS attacks. When the server goes down, stimulate role-play and discussion on the forums, write lore, improve the Wiki. Get out and get some fresh air. Show them that we will enjoy ourselves regardless. Show them that their attacks mean nothing to us. Put them in their place like the dog they are and show them that we will carry on without them. Make 3:00 PM onward be the most miserable hours they will ever face, investing so much of their time, energy and money towards a lonely and pitiful act that will be met with nothing but the laughter, comradery and indifference of the very community they despise. If we negotiate, they win. If we exhaust our funds, they win. If we become divided in our allegiances and blinded in our perception of the matter at hand, they win. We've maintained hundreds of supporters for a year now and they're all alone. Let's just do what we do. Disregard them and work around it. $200-$4,000 a month? No. $50,000? No. Too rich for my blood. We don't negotiate with terrorists. Endure it until they peter out. I'm retired and have too little at stake here to make a truly sound and unbiased judgment, but there's my rant. P.S. If that doesn't work, I have a wealthy uncle in Uganda that just passed away, leaving me his estate. I'll see what I can do. That's all nice and dandy when you say it like that. But ignoring DDoS, ok. Writing lore? For what? There won't be a server online for you too write lore for. DDoSing isn't a full-time job, it's an easy thing to do and keep consistent until a community dies. There's no disagreement that they are "dogs" but pretending it's not affecting us is simply silly. It is affecting us, it's affecting the donations we get as well, we've not had enough money to pay for this months hosting because of the lack of donations and the player count is a lot less than usual. We don't have many players coming in either. If the DDoS continues at this rate without fixing it, we don't know what will happen to LoTC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temp 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Are these attacks directed at the company, or just the IP/server LoTC is on? I'm not entirely sure of the set-up. Would it be possible to bring the system down, and rotate IP's? Then distribute the Server's new IP to members Via PM? Maybe leave the old IP open as a method to attempt shutting the attack down? I'm pretty sure they can rotate IP's constantly, but if they're doing the attacks from a server, wouldn't the server need a solid, persisted IP? However, doing this would require you to get rid of anything that references the IP, Minestatus, and etc... Hmm.... Excuse my language, but these people are real bastards.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free The Hobbits 859 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Are these attacks directed at the company, or just the IP/server LoTC is on? I'm not entirely sure of the set-up. Would it be possible to bring the system down, and rotate IP's? Then distribute the Server's new IP to members Via PM? Maybe leave the old IP open as a method to attempt shutting the attack down? I'm pretty sure they can rotate IP's constantly, but if they're doing the attacks from a server, wouldn't the server need a solid, persisted IP? However, doing this would require you to get rid of anything that references the IP, Minestatus, and etc... Hmm.... Excuse my language, but these people are real bastards.. what... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lago 2572 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Just block all IPs from every country except US, Canada, Europe, and the Oceanic server. Then IP whitelist applicants from other places? Maybe blacklist every IP and then whitelist members. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoblivion 532 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Then IP whitelist applicants from other places? Maybe blacklist every IP and then whitelist members. It would take a lot of time but it might work, although I'm no expert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawd 222 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Take a leaf from Anonymous. Use the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, reverse DDoS. Show dat sucka who's bawss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neutonic 17 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Right so i did some searching and i found this post : http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1428239-for-those-being-ddosd-found-protection/ and basicly it suggests to use this site for protection from DDOS, it protects up to 10Gb of DDOS and the best part is, it may be free. http://javapipe.com/web/ddos_mitigation.html look at the bottom of that page. Edit : Heres another post about the DDOS and that javapipe is offering ddos protection against the mine craft ddoser http://forums.spout.org/threads/herocraft-dev-being-ddosd-by-spunkiie-craftlandia-server.4562/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natas 0 Share Posted September 18, 2012 -snip- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aron. 427 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Right so i did some searching and i found this post : http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1428239-for-those-being-ddosd-found-protection/ and basicly it suggests to use this site for protection from DDOS, it protects up to 10Gb of DDOS and the best part is, it may be free. http://javapipe.com/web/ddos_mitigation.html look at the bottom of that page. Edit : Heres another post about the DDOS and that javapipe is offering ddos protection against the mine craft ddoser http://forums.spout.org/threads/herocraft-dev-being-ddosd-by-spunkiie-craftlandia-server.4562/ That seems like it would work. I would be more than willing to donate 50$ towards that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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