Quote Originally Posted by MisterNublet View Post
If its not DDoS attacks, it's NTT being an absolute dog's arse of a ISP.
Usually when it's an NTT node acting up (looking at you, San Jose) it only impacts certain ISPs. For about six months a few years ago Charter/Spectrum had massive problems with that node, then suddenly one day they resolved.

This is instead a direct blast on the data center that hosts XIV, knocking the instance servers offline specifically. The lobby servers are actually okay. If you get a 9002 and wait about 30-60 seconds before attempting to reconnect, you can get back in without the 2002 (which happens if you try to reconnect too fast.)

These narrow, specific crashes mean it's either:
1. A DDoS attack targeting the instance servers specifically OR

2. The actual data center hardware for the instance server is dying, like a bad switch or something.

If the latter was true, they'd get the blinky lights notifying them of the problem right away and it's easy to do a hardware swap. Commercial hardware warranties are 5 years, so its not a matter of money if a thing dies early.

For me, that rules out #2.