There have been quite a few questions about what has been going on and since most of you who are asking aren’t in the steam group (hint, hint) I figured I would post an update of what has gone down throughout the day. Basically our website has fallen victim to a distributed denial of service attack which is simply spamming requests to our web server. By spamming requests the attacker is able tie up the web server thus preventing legitimate traffic, you and me, from getting to the website, hence the blank pages when you would try to load a page.
At first I had to take down the Lounge, accompanying Sassilization servers as well as the website due to the way they are integrated together but later came to a solution which allowed me to put up the servers. I talked over some solutions with a friend and one clever idea he had was to forward the traffic with some DNS changes to a site which might not be so friendly, Microsoft.com. Although this solution did relieve our web server it wasn’t desirable for obvious reasons. After talking again he hinted me to go look for a module for Apache (our web server) which is made for these kinds of things, so I did. I was able to find a module which looks for rapidly repeating traffic and, when it finds it, puts them on a blacklist which makes successive requests lead them to a 403 page.
We are still being attacked so you can understand if the site goes slow or if a page does not load at all.
Update:
We are no longer being attacked.
Update 2:
We are being attacked again. Whoever is attacking us, if you want to talk and possibly reach a solution please try us on our ventrilo: vent.sassilization.com port 4100
, but as too everyone else their really isnt anything you can do as an admin vs a normal player since cold does all the work. So keep whining for your admin back sub
This is why I need my admin back.
If I was still admin shit like this wouldn’t happen.
Just be lucky I was around and sober when cold asked me for help.