DDOS attack

[MistakeNot]

Filtering out traffic is pretty easy on any firewall that is why pass doss attacks come and go and we end user never really notice them.
This seems to be something different or a really wide spread Doss attack.

A properly executed DDoS attack is not easily handled by a firewall. By the time the packets reach the firewall it is already too late to filter them out.
It is not handling the packets that is the main problem, but the deluge of packets that will overflow the network connections causing real traffic to be dropped.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You also know as a server admin, You wouldn't tell people you are having a problem but blame it on a doss attack. That way you can't be blamed for a router or switch falue or some internal traffic. Sure you tell the boss but you don't tell the masses or they will loss faith in your skill.

Filtering out traffic is pretty easy on any firewall that is why pass doss attacks come and go and we end user never really notice them.
This seems to be something different or a really wide spread Doss attack.

Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere. When there's hardware failure, they tell us that. They have a history of telling us when it's on their end.

[Taliriah]

I beg to differ. The server is online and functioning correctly. The page you reference shows GO/NO_GO status only. The servers are, indeed, up (GO). They are receiving so much traffic that your particular connection isn't able to get through. And if you are a server admin, you know that already. (I used to be an AIX admin, I have some familiarity myself.)

Similar to when expansions first drop and too many people are trying to connect to servers. Some connections get dropped. The DDOS packets are taking advantage of some vulnerability and are probably coming in at a higher priority than our normal connections, which is why nearly every FFXIV player isn't able to login but the DDOS packets are getting through and clogging up all available server connections.

Come now, sir.

Which boils down to the same thing that RiverSideGuy said: the servers are not online in a way that works properly for the end user. No need to be pedantic about the details.

[Sjol]

Which boils down to the same thing that RiverSideGuy said: the servers are not online in a way that works properly for the end user. No need to be pedantic about the details.

Except the status checks for each server are probably an internal check inside their network. Probably hitting a `/status` endpoint which does an internal check to make sure all the pieces are functioning, and they are. The problem is that we can't get to the server. You would need something outside their network doing the check and they probably have that, but it's not part of their individual server checks, but more a network monitor which would report differently.

[NonBinaryNyan]

Genuinely asking: Is it more helpful to the people at Squeenix trying to fix this if we keep attempting to log in and play? Or is it more helpful to stop until they declare it mended?

I've gotten so many disconnects, lobby connection errors, etc over the last few hours. I've just been giving it a few minutes each time it cuts me off and then trying again b/c I need to do the 16 event. >_<

(Yes I know it's been live for weeks. I wasn't able to play.)

[Neoyoshi]

Usually what a company does is they have to get in contact with all of their various ISP providers they work with and send reports of the attacks, then they simply have to wait and allow the different teams of each provider to handle the attacks in the ways they do. They don't exactly fully advertize the methods they use to handle these situations because... well that would be kind of the point of having good cyber-security; 'keeping it a well-guarded secret' -which is so freak'n hard.

There is a lot i'm leaving out of this explanation and i'm not really explaining it well either, but the gist of it is there.

[caffe_macchiato]

It is not an “attack”. It is a failure of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. to provide proper server infrastructure to protect their top revenue earner. The likely reason is that Square Enix cannot afford it or refuses to fund it. This is the same company that gave us such stalwart classics as Endwalker and FF16, yes, but it’s also the same company that made 1.0, Harvestella, FF12-15, and a dozen gacha games that closed in a year. And it’s no surprise that they’re literally going broke. And like anyone who’s bad at his job, this company blames anyone but itself.

But you still think Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. is doing better than Microsoft Activision-Blizzard, right?

[TaleraRistain]

It is not an “attack”. It is a failure of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. to provide proper server infrastructure to protect their top revenue earner. The likely reason is that Square Enix cannot afford it or refuses to fund it. This is the same company that gave us such stalwart classics as Endwalker and FF16, yes, but it’s also the same company that made 1.0, Harvestella, FF12-15, and a dozen gacha games that closed in a year. And it’s no surprise that they’re literally going broke. And like anyone who’s bad at his job, this company blames anyone but itself.

But you still think Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. is doing better than Microsoft Activision-Blizzard, right?

You think Blizzard was never brought down by DDoS attacks like this? Happened back when I played WoW, too. It's something that happens on the internet.

[Zarkovitch]

Yoshi P need to talk to Phil Spencer about it. Then Presidnet of USA, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and finally Mr.Beast for this outrage.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You think Blizzard was never brought down by DDoS attacks like this? Happened back when I played WoW, too. It's something that happens on the internet.

Amazon and Microsoft have been brought down by ddos attacks. No one is safe and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand how internet infrastructure or ddos attacks work.