Quote Originally Posted by Mmartins View Post
Sorry if I sound rude or something Hieral, not my intention, but you don\\'t know what a DDoS attack is. There\\'s hardly anything SE (or anyone, really) can do to defend against a DDoS atack. That\\'s why it\\'s such a popular tool to disrupt online services, because it\\'s almost impossible to defend against it. The only real way to fight it is getting more resources so they don\\'t get saturated by the DDoS... but if you do that, the attackers can just get more resources (usually more people) and that\\'s it, you\\'re back to the start and your service is still disrupted.
I don't claim to be a computer nerd by any means. In fact, the last time I used a computer for anything other than making a resume, Windows XP was a thing. That being said, from what research one can do online, it appears there's several methods of defense against this issue. The example you cited being one on a very long list.

Again, I'm no expert, hence the request to hire experts, but can't they just shut down all computer requests for access, single out the IPs spamming the network, firewall them, then restore computer access until the culprit is 100% blocked? Doesn't really seem possible to do on a console.

Unless it's being suggested that people can access the servers outside of the game client itself, which wouldn't make sense unless it was someone in SE doing it. If that's how it's happening, easily fixed I would think: shut down all requests coming from outside the client, add authorized IP addresses to permitted users, and firewall the rest.

Like I said, no expert but I understand the basics. I'm sure there's experts out there for hire who can isolate and fix it. Just a matter of SE being willing to hire them