Server Troubles Part 2

[Sirvaleen]

à l’instant, Raving.raven a dit :

i don't want to alarm you but the servers are down again

 

Rofl.. waking up and smelling the DDoS there ?

[Exacerbator]

RIP 1,500,000 credits run. You better give me a credit booster as well then, as you're being so generous, right? :)

Edited March 29, 2018 by Exacerbator

[Stickman949]

I WANT TO SLICE SOME INFESTED IN FRUSTRATION!!! URRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[ProCNJ]

1. Login fail, :(

[wyrmead]

I understand that you will be fixing things up with the people who had active boosters, but what about people's time? Some people aren't able to play the game at any time. What about them? Don't they deserve a compensation for the downtime? I don't know... just a thought.

[Ashrek1999]

i keep on getting a log in failed check your info error whenever i try to log in. i know i have the right password i even checked by logging into the warframe.com website.

[LabMan95]

I feel for you guys that lost a lot from this. Hopefully DE can get everything back in order and go after the jack wagons that are doing this. It's been down a good hour now, hopefully they get bored of DDoSing soon

[rendquickfend]

8 minutes ago, MunsuLight said:

Isn't a DDOS someone sending a lot of packets of informations to overload the servers ? 

So new one , biggers one should help against this ? or I'm wrong ?

 

No, DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service. All these tiny packets come from different IPs so blocking an IP doesn't help. The way that this functions is that normally there's a sort of virus infecting a lot of people's computers and sending these packets. The amount of distribution is potentially unlimited. They can add 200 servers and they could potentially still be swamped, and adding 200 servers will come with its own problems, distribution is hard. And on top of that you have to have a central server managing that distribution which would then, in turn, get swamped and become a bottleneck of its own. It's of no help. 

 

There are of course things you can do, but scaling horizontally is not the solution. Basically it depends on how clever the attack is. If the attack is very clever all they can do for the moment is putting out fires until they find the common denominator.

[Shidonia]

3 minutes ago, LuckkyBullet said:

for how much money i have personally paid you guys seriously should look into better protection against ddos attacks...or just PRIVATE SERVERS to stop all this host migration crap.

This. is. literally. disgusting. to. read.

[RuggedyRasher]

I didnt get any 3 day extension on my booster, I did however have the pleasure of being booted out right after extracting from an hour long  Axi survival run... feelsbadman.

[Streaky_Haddock]

1 minute ago, Plasmaface said:

IT'S BACK

AND IT'S DOWN AGAIN

[D3thE4t3r]

I find this situation somewhat funny, I just bought a booster, then got 2 boosters in a mail. and now this... But I know DE is trying their best to fix this situation. Hope they keep up the good work

[ethan_dt]

Idk why but this whole situation reminds me of Octavia's Anthem; something goes wrong with a computer, turns out it's an extremely self-absorbed (literally) construct with an ability to crash a server or two. Coincidence???????

[Stickman949]

Just now, Shidonia said:

This. is. literally. disgusting. to. read.

Indeed.

[(PSN)Fourhundred57]

3 minutes ago, LuckkyBullet said:

for how much money i have personally paid you guys seriously should look into better protection against ddos attacks...or just PRIVATE SERVERS to stop all this host migration crap.

Can someone give me an ELI5 for why it's not possible to have separate, opt-in, whitelist-only servers? Like, if I were to pre-validate my IP and any other info I'd need, what makes it impossible for DE to have some servers that have whitelists for pre-auth'd Tenno instead of blacklists for DDoSers?

[Exaclic]

Damn, i hope that my Akbolto Prime Receiver got saved before crash :/

[Brynslustafir]

Just now, Streaky_Haddock said:

AND IT'S DOWN AGAIN

NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING

[Eyrony]

I bet EA is behind this :D

[xDiend]

Thanks for the updates here and on Twitter, we appreciate all that you do. Hope it is working again soon :) 

[LuckkyBullet]

2 minutes ago, SpentCasings said:

Game sessions are Peer to Peer...there will always be a host with that setup....that has nothing to do with DE and everything to do with your connection to the host. 

But private servers don need peer to peer in order to function properly. look at overwatch for example.

[Noronomicon]

I managed to log in and activate the booster only for the servers to break again... bye booster. Thanks for keeping us updated and good luck

[Deman_357]

it's really freaky when you see check your info after typing/pasting in the correct password the 10th time...
if it said authentication server unavailable it would be a hell of a lot more reassuring.

[Stickman949]

EVERYONE CHANNEL YOUR INNER VOLT!!! NOW!!!

[Duplon]

hmm

[AstroFish7]

cant log in and waiting to play warframe......