Server and forum outages

[Cannon]

We've been hit by a couple of DoS attacks in the last day or so. These have interrupted the operation of the server and forum. Not much we can do about these at the moment. We've passed the information onto the various police contacts we have and will see if anything happens.

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[Vizzini]

That sucks, I hate when people do that. Its immature, dumb and selfish.
I doubt the authority can do anything, but good luck.

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[Ocampo]

Sure they can, in most countries that is Illegal...

So, in turn, you get arrested...

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[AeternusDoleo]

Depends if it's a DoS or DDoS. Distributed denial of service is typically done through a number of proxies (a botnet usually) and with the commands coming top-down, those can be hard to trace back to their controller. Someone abusing their own connection however, is fair game.

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[Fletcher]

Whoever it is... Well hehe if I type how I feel I'd be arrested. Don't screw around with other people's fun!

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[n00bl3t]

I am surprised this does not have more posts.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[ryoken]

Whoever it is... Well hehe if I type how I feel I'd be arrested. Don't screw around with other people's fun!

I hear what your saying. I can think of many bad things i would do to them. You just know it is some kid who was probly banned for not playing nice,and this is their idea of revenge.

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[Cannon]

To clarify they were distributed attacks. Not a huge deal, just a pain in the butt.

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[Akura]

More of an itch you can't quite scratch away.

Like a pesky, measly, pathetic fly. So like the people that caused them. :mellow:

[Zukeenee]

I am surprised this does not have more posts.

I think we're just used to it by now. After all, the server is still playable and the forums are still postable. Many people probably aren't even aware of the problem.

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