server issues?

[the_furry]

is the server down right now i can't seem to join in

[EvilBrage]

Yeah, a grief squad rolled through and I haven't been able to connect for about 30 mins or so; wish someone would just hit the button on the box so we can be done with this.

[Eliot Clef]

Yeah, a grief squad rolled through and I haven't been able to connect for about 30 mins or so; wish someone would just hit the button on the box so we can be done with this.

 

Man, I'm dying to know what happened that round. I know there was some kind of bombing, but I didn't get to see what happened before the server was restarted.

[Conspire2Ignite]

Well, it started with griefing in, I believe, the kitchen. Then a virus infecting, at ZipZero's count, 15 people in medbay. Then it escalated.

 

 

And then we went down and Covert's newscaster thing was a no-go.

[Farcry11]

Well, it started with griefing in, I believe, the kitchen. Then a virus infecting, at ZipZero's count, 15 people in medbay. Then it escalated.

 

 

And then we went down and Covert's newscaster thing was a no-go.

 

All according to plan...

[Guest]

Yeah, but that wasn't the worst part of it. We believe the reason the server actually went down was due to either Denial of Service with a very strong computer being able to do so, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks with the amount of raiders hitting us.

So, obviously, this was a coordinated attack. More than likely, someone got pretty buttmad on reddit and decided to spearhead an attack that ended up being pretty useless in retrospect. I heard mentionings of VPNs from Tablespoon, but that's about all I know at this point. Whatever happened beyond DDoS is all just speculation.