A genuine question as for the first time last night I noticed having large amount of freezing time , DC's and increased latency. It was awful.
Why are the servers getting these attacks and how do we prevent them? And who or what is causing them?
Sorry I'm not that technical. I rather ask to get more understanding of it and if theres anything I can do to avoid this?
Who causes DDoS Attack and how to prevent it?
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11-08-2017, 05:07 PMMatureWho causes DDoS Attack and how to prevent it?
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11-08-2017, 05:10 PMKitfox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
TL;DR: You can't do anything, it's up to the service provider to mitigate the attack. -
11-08-2017, 05:56 PMBigRed5392trolls, wanna be hackers, hackers making a point, terrorists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mature
can't a ddos attack is spamming servers with fake logins so it shuts it down. -
11-08-2017, 06:37 PMCakekizyy
Doubt was DDoS. Servers were fine for me.
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11-08-2017, 06:54 PMLyraKuronekoLodestone said it was DDoS. Not resolved thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cakekizyy
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a1b8fa37bd1bdc -
11-08-2017, 07:01 PMJib
My bullguard did give me a few warnings yesterday evening while playing ffxiv that I had never seen before - don’t remember the actual text now, something regarding network attack I think. Not sure if it is related with this or not
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11-08-2017, 07:06 PMCakekizyyNo wonder I didn't notice anything, different data center.Quote:
Originally Posted by LyraKuroneko
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11-08-2017, 07:28 PMJoe777Even if it was the same data center it is possible for some players to not experience the latency when others do. It basically impacts people at random. Severity of induced lag depends on how harsh the DDoS is. For example: one of my FC members got continuously DC'd and all I ever got was the occasional lag spike, and we were running PotD together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cakekizyy
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11-08-2017, 07:50 PMAshburyIt appears it wasn't targeted specifically at FFXIV. Comcast was having outages across the US yesterday. Affecting FFXIV specifically, it seens if your connection was routed through NTT, you were losing 60% of your packets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cakekizyy
That's why some people got affected, some weren't. If your connection weren't going through what was being DDOs, you were fine.
As for preventing, you pretty much can't because you can't pinpoint where the attack is coming through. You can try to block what appears to be an attack vector but you get a lot of false positives.