Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
Curious, question. So they have paid the ISP, is their priority traffic or infrastructure. If the route is being attacked did they prioritize some other service over SE or do they all get equal treatment? Is the ISP just a victim and by association SE or possible they were told to pay for X and they decided that the extra insurance/resources was a silly cost.
I'm not sure what you are asking with the first question. We know that SE's servers are in an NTT datacentre and that datacentre is on the NTT global network. From the traceroutes I've done, it would appear specific NTT routers are being DDoSed to the point where the routers are saturated with bogus packets so that nothing is getting through at all. I imagine any service that someone needs to access through those routers will be inaccessible during an attack. Are other services accessible through redundant NTT connections that failover when the attacks start? I can't tell you because the only time I have packets traversing NTT's network is when I am playing FFXIV. I'd hope that NTT is prioritizing all traffic equally but ISPs are generally not in favour of net-neutrality.