EVE General Discussion

I haven't seen any reports on connection stats, but would like to know more.

Out here in Australia (TPG/IINET) eve connections are usually quite stable, but occasionally we will get a rough patch like midnight Friday 18th December where clients will disconnect and subsequent attempts to start the launcher repeatedly fail to reach the server and you are resigned to playing something else for the night.

Even the online forums or eve-offline are unreliable during this time.

This sounds like a Denial of Service attack to me, is this true CCP ? I haven't seen any posts about such things.

If it is DOS I have an idea.

I understand that DOS attackers must focus their resources on flooding a particular port number of a particular IP address thus preventing legitimate incoming packets from being acknowledged by the server. The IP address is not changeable, but the port number is.
What if a change was made to the launcher to set any port number nominated by the account holder via account management ?
If you get disconnected just nominate another port number between say 30000 and 65535 and reconnect.

I fear if dropouts become a regular thing, I will have to hang up my space suit and go and fight zombies or some such...



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A lot of times the dropout isnt on CCP's end, but lies somewhere in one of the hops between your local area and the TQ servers.

To check to see if TQ or the Forums really are down, please refer to http://eve-offline.net/ for up to the minute connection status!

Looking at eve-offline, there was a sharp drop in player count at 10AM eve time, which I think is the dropout you are referring to.

Eve does get DOS attacks, and CCP has a team that works on mitigating them, as well as other internet issues.

I've been pretty stable overall, but I've noticed that when I do get a connection drop, its usually just after an area transition. I've dropped upon docking at Dodixie, or just following the jump into the system. I've had other, more random drops in different areas but I believe all were after I'd finished a warp, jump, or a dock.

FYI, they're not watching YouTube nor Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs

actually because the us stayed up that implies its not on ccp's end.

The tubes to the servers are not very many. There is (or was) one cable under the ocean that runs from the us to Europe. (not sure if more got added) an outage anywhere near or on the route will kill the connections for any us players to TQ. the same goes for the other way as well. This implies something between you and ccp went down.

the internet is a highway, if the road between you and work has an accident and massive traffic thats not your works fault. so 9 times out of 10, disconnects are not the end servers fault

Some days I'll get them every half hour, other days I won't get any

Just happened again.

DC, launcher is empty, forum won't load. Takes a minute then it's back to normal. No other internet or website issues at all.


-edit -

2 mins later it goes down again, now for a longer period. eve offline.net shows a massive drop in connections.

none today - thank you...

The only time I get dropouts is when Tippia gets involved in an argument here in the forum. Man...if that isn't an internet killer, then nothing is.

Mr Epeen