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Endureth
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:32:00 -
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Edited by: Endureth on 20/08/2003 01:35:24
As you may have noticed, connections to the EVE cluster have been dropping along with packet loss and high ping. We have traced the problem to an IP level denial of service attack on our network hardware. Countermeasures have been taken to thwart the attack so things should go back to normal now. More news will be posted as the situation develops
So someone explain to me, in layman's terms, what that means exactly.
-E
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DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:36:00 -
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Denial of service (dos) or distributed denial of service (ddos) is a type of attack used to bring down large systems and phat pipes.
basically a computer or a bunch of computers keep sending garbage data to the server which slows it down badly.. often making it drop its connection (even though its dedicated)
this is achieved by l33t hax0r punks who comandeer T3's and OC12's or trojan 1000 computers to target one server.
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scam artist
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:38:00 -
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yea the 135 port thing as now turned into this for the past few days constant flow been blocked on my pc
i blame the noobies without firewalls
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Endureth
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:39:00 -
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Edited by: Endureth on 20/08/2003 01:41:46
So, now that CCP has tracked this down, all the lag we've been experiencing over the last couple of days will clear up? My Megathron has been sitting in a hanger for the last three days out of fear of lag death.
Though today I did do a little pirate hunting and found a Magnetic Vortex. Was pretty happy about that.
-E
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nails
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:40:00 -
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Well whoever DOSed CCP they sure as hell do not seem to like eve.
I bet LucasArts or microsoft did it. lol
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DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:41:00 -
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Firewalls have nothing to do with it.. you can get infected through a corporate hardware firewall since most firewalls accept http data. d00d.
Endureth, yeah they know what the problem is, so do the rest of us.. question is, can they handle it? 
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Erty
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:44:00 -
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Or maybe it's some dude who thinks that CCP's CS sucks :S
Someone who has lost his new battleship maybe? :)
Or just someone else.
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agrizla
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Posted - 2003.08.20 01:53:00 -
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Endureth - in all honesty I have no clue whether C&W suffered a DDoS or not. Network graphs of Level3 would suggest not. Wait and see what happens is my advice. If you get a similar amount of disconnections/CTD after the next "maintenance" period I wouldn't believe a single word that comes out of CCP. My advice is for people to look at the empirical evidence and make their own minds up.
If I had to make an educated guess - the cluster got reduced two weeks ago (at the time of the long extended downtime). This would tie up with the db volume that overflowed last weekend.
Anyway - who knows? I'm just around to try to organise events to give away stuff  I doubt I'll be allowed to do that though.....
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Turtle
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Posted - 2003.08.20 02:17:00 -
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If I had to make an educated guess - the cluster got reduced two weeks ago (at the time of the long extended downtime). This would tie up with the db volume that overflowed last weekend.
I have not had a CTD at all in the last month. Yesterday and today the lag has been bad and I have had server dissconnects (not CTDs) IMO. Today I stayed home from work. Looking at my incoming traffic on my router I was getting 100+ hits per sec from IP's looking for port 135. This does affect my performance because it takes away bandwidth from legit transactions.
Now you computer experts riddle me this. Would this affect people behind a SW firewall more. In my mind it would as it takes processing power to run the SW and it has to respond to every attack.
We already know that Eve likes all the power you can throw at it and is very picky about memory allocation. I solved what few CTD's I was getting by updating my MB bios which added a small memory allocation fix.
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Skelator
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Posted - 2003.08.20 02:27:00 -
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Edited by: Skelator on 20/08/2003 02:29:15
Quote:
Edited by: Endureth on 20/08/2003 01:35:24
As you may have noticed, connections to the EVE cluster have been dropping along with packet loss and high ping. We have traced the problem to an IP level denial of service attack on our network hardware. Countermeasures have been taken to thwart the attack so things should go back to normal now. More news will be posted as the situation develops
So someone explain to me, in layman's terms, what that means exactly.
-E
BINGO I was right some Little Pimply ****y Pants Griefer Running a Powertrip DOS Attack
Unbelievable
Any Guesses on who hates this game and its players that much to do a lowdown stinking stunt like this?
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Duke Baraka
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Posted - 2003.08.20 03:34:00 -
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Translation -
It's not our fault players. It's someone elses fault, probably one of you guys' fault.
Same old same old. Puuhleeeze! Sounds like another bogus attempt to mask somebodies incompetence.
Might help to get the forums, your accounting software, and all the other extraneous stuff off of the x286 box that you're running this piece of crap off of.
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Slithereen
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Posted - 2003.08.20 03:53:00 -
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Give it a break.
The last one or two months has been a high in hacker activity, including defacing of many websites and forums, the release of worms and so on. There was even a hacker summit either last month or this month, where the best hackers in the world logged an intramural of their own to see how many high level systems they can break into, and who can break the best systems. It's enough to give the Homeland Security office a big headache, since US government computers are often primary targets.
Either someone is doing it as pure malicious fun, or someone is very ****ed at CCP or EVE players.
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M Sullivan
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Posted - 2003.08.20 04:26:00 -
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Here are my 2 cent's on current issue:
since retail had 1 unexplained ctd, been playing since 5 days after game went live and in beta.
Suddenly last sunday night I started experiancing multiple ctd's...No patch was issued at that time and has not been issued since....
If you have been reading the boards then you might have notices many people reporting massive packet loss since then.....It is also rather enlighting to read the local IT news ...those issues poisoning the internet since last sunday night might also be having some effect on this? ..or mayby not...perhaps it's all just ccp's fault .....like the man said....draw your own locical conclusions.....
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