Asulynn Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 Right, so.. We, and pretty much every other clan, and every other game that runs off of the Q3 engine are dealing with a botnet. A big list of servers get accumulated over a period from none other than GameTracker - after a large enough list of Q3 servers are accumulated, their IPs are distributed through the botnet. At this point, it goes through that list and sends what is known to Q3 as a "getstatus" packet. That packet just requests game information, much like what you would get from pinging servers through UU. The problem with that comes when the server -has- to respond to that packet with one of its own. However, the one it responds with is several times larger than the request packet sent from the botnet. getstatus: ~12 bytesresponse: ~1024 bytes (not exact) Multiply this by however many IPs are sending "getstatus" requests to the server at one time, which the server -has- to respond to. There is also no filter for getstatus packets, so imagine 1000 unique IPs sending these getstatus packets per second, and the server responding to 1000 of those (with much larger packets) per second. Because of this, servers running a Q3 powered game can essentially be used in the botnet itself, as its going to end up flooding a "spoofed" IP with upwards of a gigabit/s of data - in theory. Which makes these games a very attractive target to botnets. The solution for all these other clans was to remove themselves from GameTracker and change IPs. However, anybody can add a server to the GameTracker list, so they're right back to where they started if a troll, or ignorant person, decides to do so.Apologies for the (continued) downtime. As a different way of explaining the problem: http://jkhub.org/pag...dos-attacks-r55 If you aren't following.. Basically our server is being used as Darth Sidious' source of unlimited power. As a side note: We're blocking the GameTracker scanners by firewall. We'll likely be changing IPs. I have also been informed that Jedi Phoenix is trying to hack the University of Columbia's servers. :faec: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephy Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 I have also been informed that Jedi Phoenix is trying to hack the University of Columbia's servers. :faec: Well...thank god for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asulynn Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Just to chime in here again: It'll be back soon™ A lot of talk between our provider following an abuse complaint. Once everything is settled again, we should still be on the same IP. However, the port will be changing from 29070 to 27960. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I have had way too much to drink for this to be happening. By that I mean I really want to play now after more than a year, and this happens. by that I mean I'm drunk someone rape me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I have had way too much to drink for this to be happening. By that I mean I really want to play now after more than a year, and this happens. by that I mean I'm drunk someone rape me. All you have to say is : HDY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reckoner Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 by that I mean I'm drunk someone rape me. I'm one step ahead of you. Check yours and your cat's anus. :LaPuta: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I'm one step ahead of you. Check yours and your cat's anus. :LaPuta:Which cat? hopefully not my kitten. her anus is too small, you end up with a chafed bloody penis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Dragon Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Soo you mean emiy the server has been controlling by the badboys when will it be fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephy Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Soo you mean emiy the server has been controlling by the badboys when will it be fixed? the "badboys" are not in control of the server. They are only using LOIC or something really primitive to cause the server to crash, which in turn causes the providers to shut down the server. Emylii is currently working hard to resolve the situation so that, for one, it never happens again, and two, they get a new IP. Be patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asulynn Posted October 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 http://jediphoenix.c...er-information/ IP updated. It's back.Small list of security rules that have been implemented following this:*** EDITED OUT*** *** EDITED OUT*** *** EDITED OUT*** *** EDITED OUT*** I'm going to smash some face if this thing brings us down again through all of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 I'm going to smash some face if this thing brings us down again through all of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephy Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 Just for the hell of it - China, India & Nigeria no longer exists as far as the server is concerned. ohmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightFire Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 Just for the hell of it - China, India & Nigeria no longer exists as far as the server is concerned. But yeah fuck the nigerians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asulynn Posted October 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 But yeah fuck the nigerians.I don't like their Prince's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivaj Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 So you have banned 2.5 billion potential players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 So you have banned 2.5 billion potential players? They're already banned for life by their governments. No biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 2.5 billion is alot lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephy Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 *2.6 Billion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 Nigerians can't play anyway. They'd get too distracted and be eaten by lions, because everyone knows there's like a million lions over there. Plus their computers are made from sticks and old soup cans. maybe a glass coke bottle of they are from a family with particularly high standing. Jedi Academy is still a few years out of their reach. The only country more primitive is australia, and they're too busy crocodile hunting and making awesome graphic designs to execute any plans of cyber terror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asulynn Posted October 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 No amount of security can help against a bad provider. >. 108.61.82.165:29070 ^ Backup server. I don't know its limits, so it'll probably crap out with too much people on it. I'm going out of town tomorrow, so Nikos will have to fill in for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asulynn Posted October 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2012 Aaaand provider managed to fix it before I left. So the main server is back, and I don't expect there to be any more problems with it. */knockonwood* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephy Posted October 26, 2012 Report Share Posted October 26, 2012 If they screw up once more...I shall rain down a thousand arrows and Sarah Jessica Parker to wreck havoc on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightFire Posted October 26, 2012 Report Share Posted October 26, 2012 If they screw up once more...I shall rain down a thousand arrows and Sarah Jessica Parker to wreck havoc on them. Anything but her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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