So you didn't hear about the Lizard Squad attacks against Xbox Live and the Playstation Network last christmas? It was in the news. Additionally the guy doing the DDOS attacks against Cryptic has been bragging about it on twitter, anyone can look and see this if they want to.
Exactly. Not to mention it's been pointed out repeatedly how difficult it can be to prevent attacks like this, particularly if the perp is using a 'service' to handle these attacks - these services can have tens of thousands of IP sources and 'botnets' to launch their attacks.
The folks at Cryptic have stopped every single attack against the servers - not always quickly, but having the game running is top priority to them (otherwise they make zero income). To assume otherwise is just silly.
> @eg0rundead said: > might be whoth, turning it off and on again but make sure you backed up guys, please.
yeah that sound like a idea,
but people need to stop raging so much about the server... they said there doing everything they can to get it up and running maybe it could give people time to reflect... it will be running in the nxt hour or so.
and i severly doubt people are going to die without STo for an hr...
i mean i was in the middle of romulan-borg mission and the server was getting em killed so much but i dont rage i just restarted and got through it, even after 20+ atempts but if when th server is back up and running i get rolled back to before the mission... then ill be f**king P!$$3D
i was logged in to sto my buddy right next to me lost connection to neverwinter and has not been able to connect the launcher for about a half hour now. We can't make a connection with traceroute to patchserver.crypticstudios.com
Its just happened 2 me as well. me and the bf were online i got booted whereas he didnt and i havent been able 2 get back online since. is it another ddos attack of some kind?
Its just happened 2 me as well. me and the bf were online i got booted whereas he didnt and i havent been able 2 get back online since. is it another ddos attack of some kind?
> @kinaenov said: > azrael605 wrote: » > > > So you didn't hear about the Lizard Squad attacks against Xbox Live and the Playstation Network last christmas? It was in the news. Additionally the guy doing the DDOS attacks against Cryptic has been bragging about it on twitter, anyone can look and see this if they want to. > > > > > Exactly. Not to mention it's been pointed out repeatedly how difficult it can be to prevent attacks like this, particularly if the perp is using a 'service' to handle these attacks - these services can have tens of thousands of IP sources and 'botnets' to launch their attacks. > > The folks at Cryptic have stopped every single attack against the servers - not always quickly, but having the game running is top priority to them (otherwise they make zero income). To assume otherwise is just silly.
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> So you didn't hear about the Lizard Squad attacks against Xbox Live and the Playstation Network last christmas? It was in the news. Additionally the guy doing the DDOS attacks against Cryptic has been bragging about it on twitter, anyone can look and see this if they want to.
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> Exactly. Not to mention it's been pointed out repeatedly how difficult it can be to prevent attacks like this, particularly if the perp is using a 'service' to handle these attacks - these services can have tens of thousands of IP sources and 'botnets' to launch their attacks.
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> The folks at Cryptic have stopped every single attack against the servers - not always quickly, but having the game running is top priority to them (otherwise they make zero income). To assume otherwise is just silly.
if this is the case link the twitter please!!!
I've been keeping an eye on the Twitter feed. I'm seeing NOT A PEEP. So there is no actual proof that there is a DDOS attempt here, and quite frankly, it's not even AFFECTING everyone. My launcher loads just fine both in the game and out of it, it's the connecting to the account server that is giving me hell.
And as for the bragger's Twitter, he took that down, so you'd be linked to a blank page.
> @dragonslamr said: > It's called we (ARC) don't give a TRIBBLE if you are having issues... we don't have enough servers to handle weekends so it is a 'play it if you can' game now.. it's free what do you expect.!!! > > I mean they have had OVER 5 YEARS to fix this TRIBBLE .. they add episodes etc.. etc.. but they can't fix basic functionality!! And now they are going to blame DDOS attacks .. ROFLMAO!!! Poor idiots! I mean wow .. I don't think I have heard of games of today's age having issues with brute force attacks; seems like STO has openings they shouldn't... ROFLMAO!!! > > Just another cop out by STO!!! Worthless game thanks to lack of vision and lack of brain functionality!!!
WEll You obviously dont play many mmorpg's as both Runescape 3 and osrs followed by wow and csgo all have brute force attacks several times a year, but people rage for an hr then just accept that the company is doing everything they can to get the game back up and running, and if your think that STo is just another cop out by cryptic then why play there games. i see no contract in the agreement when u install which insist that you must play... so i think your just very salty that the server is down.
All of the DNS records for crypticstudios.com domain are missing/empty. There is no DNS record for patchserver.crypticstudios.com, so your game client can't find it. IF you know what the IP address was, I can tell you how to bypass it with an entry in the HOSTS file of your OS.
Not a ddos, its a network\DNS problem...
If we add the record to file host
208.95.185.41 patchserver.crypticstudios.com
This will prevent resolving name from DNS servers, patcher starts, but then unable to auth error, they did something with network configuration, etc, we are sure that it will improve server stablity, so, we can see the result )
Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame 9m9 minutes ago
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tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com replied unable to resolve target system name patchserver.crypticstudios.com
Hope this helps.
CM
Exactly. Not to mention it's been pointed out repeatedly how difficult it can be to prevent attacks like this, particularly if the perp is using a 'service' to handle these attacks - these services can have tens of thousands of IP sources and 'botnets' to launch their attacks.
The folks at Cryptic have stopped every single attack against the servers - not always quickly, but having the game running is top priority to them (otherwise they make zero income). To assume otherwise is just silly.
> might be whoth, turning it off and on again but make sure you backed up guys, please.
yeah that sound like a idea,
but people need to stop raging so much about the server... they said there doing everything they can to get it up and running maybe it could give people time to reflect... it will be running in the nxt hour or so.
and i severly doubt people are going to die without STo for an hr...
i mean i was in the middle of romulan-borg mission and the server was getting em killed so much but i dont rage i just restarted and got through it, even after 20+ atempts but if when th server is back up and running i get rolled back to before the mission... then ill be f**king P!$$3D
thanks for your time :)
live long and suck it!
Its just happened 2 me as well. me and the bf were online i got booted whereas he didnt and i havent been able 2 get back online since. is it another ddos attack of some kind?
Looks like it.
> azrael605 wrote: »
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> So you didn't hear about the Lizard Squad attacks against Xbox Live and the Playstation Network last christmas? It was in the news. Additionally the guy doing the DDOS attacks against Cryptic has been bragging about it on twitter, anyone can look and see this if they want to.
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> Exactly. Not to mention it's been pointed out repeatedly how difficult it can be to prevent attacks like this, particularly if the perp is using a 'service' to handle these attacks - these services can have tens of thousands of IP sources and 'botnets' to launch their attacks.
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> The folks at Cryptic have stopped every single attack against the servers - not always quickly, but having the game running is top priority to them (otherwise they make zero income). To assume otherwise is just silly.
if this is the case link the twitter please!!!
Would not run tracert with the instructions provided.
I've been keeping an eye on the Twitter feed. I'm seeing NOT A PEEP. So there is no actual proof that there is a DDOS attempt here, and quite frankly, it's not even AFFECTING everyone. My launcher loads just fine both in the game and out of it, it's the connecting to the account server that is giving me hell.
And as for the bragger's Twitter, he took that down, so you'd be linked to a blank page.
> It's called we (ARC) don't give a TRIBBLE if you are having issues... we don't have enough servers to handle weekends so it is a 'play it if you can' game now.. it's free what do you expect.!!!
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> I mean they have had OVER 5 YEARS to fix this TRIBBLE .. they add episodes etc.. etc.. but they can't fix basic functionality!! And now they are going to blame DDOS attacks .. ROFLMAO!!! Poor idiots! I mean wow .. I don't think I have heard of games of today's age having issues with brute force attacks; seems like STO has openings they shouldn't... ROFLMAO!!!
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> Just another cop out by STO!!! Worthless game thanks to lack of vision and lack of brain functionality!!!
WEll You obviously dont play many mmorpg's as both Runescape 3 and osrs followed by wow and csgo all have brute force attacks several times a year, but people rage for an hr then just accept that the company is doing everything they can to get the game back up and running, and if your think that STo is just another cop out by cryptic then why play there games. i see no contract in the agreement when u install which insist that you must play... so i think your just very salty that the server is down.
Live Long And Suck It!
If we add the record to file host
208.95.185.41 patchserver.crypticstudios.com
This will prevent resolving name from DNS servers, patcher starts, but then unable to auth error, they did something with network configuration, etc, we are sure that it will improve server stablity, so, we can see the result )
Plz, dont do that if you dont know what is it )
At the time of posting, this was Trendy's last tweet, a few hours ago
So, instead of banning individual players they just ban the servers? LoL
I'm kidding guys.
Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame 9m9 minutes ago
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"i'm givin'er all she's got cap'tain." scotty
Honestly, I'd really like to play this one... STO that is...
CM
Its a dig result.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
crypticstudios.com. 592 IN A 208.95.185.46
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
crypticstudios.com. 172791 IN NS ns1.crypticstudios.com.
crypticstudios.com. 172791 IN NS ns2.crypticstudios.com.
But...no any else records
"they have gone to plaid"
Right, that's a zero. NS are domain entries, there are no records in DNS for any host in crypticstudios.com
This coming from a guy who ran an ISP for 10 years.