(07-05-2017, 09:37 PM)Charity322 Wrote: I'm going to vent about these stupid DDOS attacks. One of my friends can't even get into the game because of them. And they appear to be unstoppable. DX
That's....sorta the point of a DDoS attack. But if you're friend can't login, I think there's something else going on there. a DDoS is a form of denial of service. Basically, groups of likely virus-infected computers were ordered to spam connections at either specific SE servers or the datacenter in general. This basically eats up bandwidth at the least and can crash servers if they make it past firewalls/routers. Typically, they slow things down or max out connection limits, which creates horrible performance for people connected. But that's the thing. One can't "fix" a DDoS attack. You either get stuck waiting, try to change IPs, or wait for the source to be found and shut it down. For companies (like SE and the one I work for), this usually means the first thing as changing the IP isn't sustainable. And waiting for a botnet to either get "found" or for legal action to happen is pretty...unlikely. Eventually, firewalls do get put in place to block known bad traffic, but it can take a lot of time to determine which connections qualify as "bad" when there are often hundreds of thousands of them.
Your friend would probably be better off running a trace route to the Aether datacenter (or datacenter they play on) to see if there's a particular path that's bad. It's usually a mark of poor internet service or faulty hardware.
