EVE General Discussion

Bullshit. I'm East Coast US myself, and I've been having massive intermittent issues. 3 of my 4 accounts will not log on, and this one will only for a little while, then disconnects whenever I try to view contacts or do a name lookup.

This is freaking ridiculous.

This is the biggest load of crap. You obviously haven't been around when Falcon and others have been up in the office at 2-4am in the morning patching servers and mitigating attacks to keep the game running for us.

For the record, east coast Australian here, and doing fine. No notable issues at all. Didn't even know this was happening.

Also would you call "Falcon and others"? They're late for being my heroes. Oh right... Not on the weekends...

I don't understand... This australian logs in fine, everyone else should.

No, you're missing the point. If we're not having trouble here, and you are there, then the point is that the attack is regional.

The other point is that, if you don't think CCP are willing to work weekends to keep their servers running, you're mistaken. If you think they aren't working on this, you're mistaken. I get that you feel a bit like throwing a tantrum over this, not being able to play what you're paying for sucks, but you're throwing your tantrum at the wrong people. CCP didn't DDOS their own servers.

So grow the **** up, and learn to handle things with a little rational thought and maturity maybe?

FU australian baiter, you're not my mom.

The weird thing is, my buddy just a few blocks away (in nebraska) can log in just fine. WTF!???!

Almost without question, it is still the DDoS attack....and I don't blame CCP for not saying too much more on it right now...

EDIT: Just ran repair from the folder, then booted launcher and in settings selected clear cache for the second or third time and boot in safe mode and it finally let me login a character. SOme forum post said to keep banging on it so I started repeating previous methods. repairs and caches etc.

This worked on my car today too. It suddenly stopped starting, everything worked except the starter relays which was pretty freakie. Anyhow I remembered about five years ago to bang my ground terminal even though it looked perfect. BIngo rubber hammer, favorite tool, second only to swiss army knife.

DDoS has a very solid solution. Ingress/Egress filtering. Don't allow traffic to leave your network with a spoofed source address. The problem is that all service providers need to implement it, and very few seem to be doing so. If you can't spoof the origin of attacks, then the compromised machines can be instantly identified, and quarantined, therefore any given botnet can be used exactly once, for a period of at most the few minutes that it takes for the necessary phone calls to be made between service providers.

We've known about the fundamental problem underlying internet architecture and its solutions for at least a decade now. Major service providers are still dragging their heels on solving it, just as email providers dragged their heels on closing open relays a decade or so earlier, until they were pressured to fix the problem. Maybe someone will start pressing lawsuits for ISP negligence and the problem will go away?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2827 (the solution, first codified as "best current practice" by IETF in 2000 - 14 years ago, and still not being widely implemented.)