This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[DaKitten]

Just another reminder to everyone, Materia is not getting DDOS'ed atm. Highly suggest visiting it.

[Themarvin]

A DDOS in pretty much all scenarios is a consistent denial of service attack, if it were happening it would not be as inconsistent as this "DDOS" is.

Even with DDOS protection in place, it would still not be this inconsistent.

This is a server overload or server hardware issue, I'm not buying the excuse.

Please fix the actual problem.

The thing is, it is very hard to ward against DDoS attacks, even with protection... more gateways to get to the server could help on it though... however that would mean more access codes for players as in having 3 different login in seequenze.. going from lobby 1 to lobby 2 and then into the game... however the DDoS would just hit lobby 1 in massive means if anything.

[TacoRemix]

Just saw in the news today they're laying off 170 employees in the UK and an undisclosed amount in the US to make room for AI QA testing. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerque...s_wants_70_of/

Maybe that has something to do with it.

[DaKitten]

Just saw in the news today they're laying off 170 employees in the UK and an undisclosed amount in the US to make room for AI QA testing. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerque...s_wants_70_of/

Maybe that has something to do with it.

As balmungs resident CatGPT, This Ai layoff does not bode well for us Ai's.

[Catwho]

The thing is, it is very hard to ward against DDoS attacks, even with protection... more gateways to get to the server could help on it though... however that would mean more access codes for players as in having 3 different login in seequenze.. going from lobby 1 to lobby 2 and then into the game... however the DDoS would just hit lobby 1 in massive means if anything.

Once upon a time I saw a real time map that monitors DDoS attacks around the globe. I wonder if it's still out there...?

(searches)

Oh hey look it's still around! https://www.netscout.com/ddos-attack-map

If you click on the one around Sacramento, you can see the details. We're getting ass blasted by a node in Poland. But that's just the final hop before it hits us - those botnets are sourced from around the globe before they smack the Sacramento data center.

Because that's what a DDoS is - a distributed denial of service attack. A thousand virus laden machines getting turned into a weaponized firehose of data packages.

[z0na_r0sa]

And here we are again. Mateus just went boom. How's everybody else doing?

[Jendic]

Once upon a time I saw a real time map that monitors DDoS attacks around the globe. I wonder if it's still out there...?

(searches)

Oh hey look it's still around! https://www.netscout.com/ddos-attack-map

If you click on the one around Sacramento, you can see the details. We're getting ass blasted by a node in Poland. But that's just the final hop before it hits us - those botnets are sourced from around the globe before they smack the Sacramento data center.

Because that's what a DDoS is - a distributed denial of service attack. A thousand virus laden machines getting turned into a weaponized firehose of data packages.

Wish we could signal boost comments like this one. So much misinformation going around about these attacks.

[Nulien]

In a way, I'd almost prefer it if the game were severely lagging or if disconnects were happening way more frequently. It would be easier to decide to just log off and do something else... but instead, I just log back in and get annoyed when I inevitably get disconnected a while later again. I've had 8 90k's in the last 3 days.

[caffe_macchiato]

New excuses just got unveiled in the past 24 hours:
- It's Poland (source: four posts up)
- The U.S. Federal Government runs the nodes, and since the government is shut down, it can't handle DDOS protection (source: /r/ffxivdiscussion)

I believe this is a violation of Article 5 of the NATO Charter.

[BlisteringFrost]

New excuses just got unveiled in the past 24 hours:
- It's Poland (source: four posts up)
- The U.S. Federal Government runs the nodes, and since the government is shut down, it can't handle DDOS protection (source: /r/ffxivdiscussion)

I believe this is a violation of Article 5 of the NATO Charter.

I think it's time to lay off the Cocoa Puffs.