Servers down?
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Logged back into solo. All good so far.
Embedded OS security is the worst, damnable printers running unpatched version of XP or ancient linux distros. I've stopped caring though, there only so many times you can push that rock uphill with the CIO.
Odd behavior, even in solo. When things go sideways, the SSS appear to spawn navy vessels only from what I've been able to deduce. Maybe it's random, but when you hit 3-4 SSS and all you see are navy vessels, one starts to think somethings up.
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Whoaaaa, with a few exceptions, just replace "British" by "Parisian", and you can use the list for French people. Actually, Parisians. Which is fine since most of them believe France frontiers stops right at the peripherique.
French for "that's not bad" is even even more tricky: "that's not uninteresting". Oh and the "I hear you" is exactly the same. I got so fed up with this one that now, when someone tells me that, I commend his/her ears for being functional and proceed to ask them if they actually understood. And I'm being as rude as can be doing so.
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Thank you. I'm sure your team worked hard at this, working out what was going on and then stopping it.
However, we spent the weekend suffering from Mushroom Syndrome, which is never nice and could so easily have been avoided had someone spent just one minute posting to the bug forum. "Sorry, we're suffering a DDoS attack on our servers. More later."
Having the Server Status page saying that the servers were "OK" when they patently weren't didn't help (more mushroom feed anyone?). Another minute spent updating the Server Status page "Mostly OK (DDoS attack under way)" wouldn't have hurt either.
Also someone should have told the Mods, but they seemed as much in the dark as the rest of us.
Oh, if only I could tell you what some peeps have done with network printers. It's both creatively wonderful and utterly appalling.
One of the best bits about the forum! I once had to reboot a server using a toad. I kid you not.
Mods have one responsibility. To watch over the forums. They are not FD employees not do they get access to any extra information that we plain old forumites get.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
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Mods don't have a 'red phone' with a direct connection to David Braben's desk that we can dial whenever the forum demands answers.
I think if we did it would never stop ringing, lol.
There's a number of armchair-cyber-warriors posting in this thread ... guys - you made my morning
I don't mind the server going down so much, as it is inevitable in an online game. What I do mind though is the lack of information. The first thing I did was check the server status on the website and it said everything was fine.... when it clearly wasn't.
I assume there is more than one server running, so how come there is just one status? Shouldn't there be a status per server, so that we can check against the specific game server we are connected to?
I assume there is more than one server running, so how come there is just one status? Shouldn't there be a status per server, so that we can check against the specific game server we are connected to?
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BRB, need to scrape some Tippex off a monitor.
There's a number of armchair-cyber-warriors posting in this thread ... guys - you made my morning
Indeed.
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just to remind you alll that dos != ddos. the extra d stands for "distributed", meaning there is no single source for the attack, rather zillions of them (most likely a botnet) flooding the target. so i dunno what this kid did, but it definitely wasn't a ddos.
if this kid managed to take the servers down from home that would be evidence of a blatant security hole, either in software or in network setup. let's hope it was fixed.
also, as some pointed out, it is entirely possible that the kid's computer and account were compromised and the attack performed by someone else. but then again it most likely would have been another kid causing trouble, a serious attacker wouldn't expose a compromised machine so openly either.
and, i find the official explanation a bit cheesy, some more detail would be appreciated.
if this kid managed to take the servers down from home that would be evidence of a blatant security hole, either in software or in network setup. let's hope it was fixed.
also, as some pointed out, it is entirely possible that the kid's computer and account were compromised and the attack performed by someone else. but then again it most likely would have been another kid causing trouble, a serious attacker wouldn't expose a compromised machine so openly either.
and, i find the official explanation a bit cheesy, some more detail would be appreciated.
Perhaps a public execution Guildwars style would be appropriate for future miscreants?
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