Aether datacenter connectivity issues (July 3, 2017)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic Denial of Service.

except its not? DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. And a DDoS attack will do exactly this. if it was people hammering the servers cuz playing, then the weekend would have been broken. it wasn't.

[Rhindas]

Our FC was discussing that awhile back, during the fiasco that was early access. DDoS, maybe, but what if it's not malicious, and it's just the players trying to login en masse? It's just wild paranoia and speculation, probably, but we've seen the servers can't handle floodgates.

Eh, I'll get the tinfoil hats out.

[Lurkios]

They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic Denial of Service.

Distributed Denial of Service*

Our FC was discussing that awhile back, during the fiasco that was early access. DDoS, maybe, but what if it's not malicious, and it's just the players trying to login en masse? It's just wild paranoia and speculation, probably, but we've seen the servers can't handle floodgates.

Eh, I'll get the tinfoil hats out.

It wouldn't match up with what I've seen previously. We've had queues before with no connectivity issues. If that was the reason I'd expect it would always be a problem during queues, not just sometimes.

[deadcrow]

except its not? DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. And a DDoS attack will do exactly this. if it was people hammering the servers cuz playing, then the weekend would have been broken. it wasn't.

It doesn't have to be a malicious attack though. Just the pure numbers of people like additional adults being off for the Holiday could pad the issue some. But who knows. It's all speculation anyways. The last time they announced a maintenance, roughly around the same time frame they "experienced" a "DDoS Attack". I just think it's the amount of people honestly.

[Ferrasper]

The zombies are coming. This proves it. :0

[Rhindas]

Probably true. Likely true. Hopefully true.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pu...lfoil_2322.jpg

[Thayos]

I've been playing on and off all day, logging in and out each time, and usually I just have queues of two to six people. (Yay for NOT playing on Balmung!)

Now I can't even get to my character screen... repeated lobby server errors.

Sure feels like a DDoS attack. The servers can handle normal player loads -- even normal "heavy" player loads -- just fine. (Except for Balmung.)

[kattzkitti]

Server troubles?

Blame DDoS!

[Dualgunner]

Server troubles?

Blame DDoS!

Is something not working correctly?

Deduce a probable reason!

[Jwrigh7784]

Despite what SE claims there is currently not a DDOS attack going on. I am staring at a realtime DDOS attack map and there is currently NO suspicious network activity coming from or leading to the physical location of the servers. They are using the DDOS attack as an excuse for their poor server infrastructure, either that or they have no clue what a DDOS attack is.