EVE General Discussion

Sorry for the newb question but I am no where near a computer programer or frankly that understanding of programs. but what is a DDos attack? is it 12 year olds with hammers putting a virus into the game?

I just don't understand the lingo is all Thanks in advance


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I don't know much about how this kind of thing happens. I would be grateful if someone, preferably someone who actually knows something about computers and the internet rather than speculative rubbish, could answer the following questions for me? I'm interested to know.

1. Why can't these people be traced/arrested?

2. These people clearly crave attention: why has Twitter not shut down their Twitter account/been forced to shut it down? It's there for everyone to see for christ sake and they've been posting for ages on it.


Thanks

First day online after my ISP effed up my DSL connection two weeks ago. Looks like you CCP guys are not having a good time either.

Thanks to each and every person who is working on getting us capsuleers into space again!

DDoS is basically a denial of service attack.

Tranquillity has a static ip# which we all connect to, kind of like a telephone number. As you play the game small amounts of data bounce back and forth between you and the server.

When someone DDoS's something they spam the ip# of the server with a large amount of data which it has problems processing, which in turn stops other "packets" from getting through. This ultimately stops everyone from connecting.

Semi drunk think that makes sense

Think of it like a party, and there suddenly is a whole load of people banging on the door going "Hai, can I come in?", and you have to check the ID of everyone who goes in, and they can only go in a few people at a time.
This would soon overwhelm your poor doorman, and you would end up with one of those parties like you read about in the paper, where 500000000000 people suddenly crash a party cos someone put it on public facebook, or, if your doorman is smart, he will just close the door and let no one in. This affects both genuine partygoers and the gatecrashers.

My understanding is that someone has already traced them and publicly posted all their details. So they have been traced.


Shutting it down wouldn't accomplish anything beyond telling them that the police are definitely interested.

Leaving it up gives them more time to say something that makes things worse for them.

So, is there anything CCP can do to defend against this attack, or do we all have to hope derp just stops out of kindness? If the attack continues indefinitely, aren't we all offline indefinitely?

thank you ccp devs for the good work you guys do and thanks for the swift actions to get eve back up and running



may the ddos attacker burn in hell

There have been unconfirmed reports of data theft (personal information). Can you confirm that this is being looked into/not an issue?

Thanks!