JohnDoe2 Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) I was in a game with a new player who wanted to win. So I gave them some pointers, and as they were about to take my base out Nedris joins, expresses displeasure with my actions "that's how noob are created" and then proceeds to DDOS me. Since I'm host there's 3 options: - the new player who was about to win - no motivation - PurpleMotion: someone who often plays with me and has been spectating this particular game off and on - no motivation - Nedris who doesn't like other "creating noob" - weird vendetta, checks out My WAN was getting blown up by random IPs, totaling around 80mb/s. Do you have any policies in dealing with people like this @user1? commands.txt Edited October 13, 2020 by JohnDoe2 tagged user1, attached replay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mralex Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 I'm not sure if it was him. The whole 0 A.D. community is under DDoS attacks, as far as I know. Maybe an IT security company is trying to sell us their protection. Or a developer wants to be hired as an IT security specialist. Maybe an other game developer wants us to play their game instead of 0 A.D. There could be several other motivations... It's a frustrating issue though, so I hope we'll find out what's going on exactly, and how to solve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDoe2 Posted December 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, mralex said: I'm not sure if it was him. The whole 0 A.D. community is under DDoS attacks, as far as I know. Maybe an IT security company is trying to sell us their protection. Or a developer wants to be hired as an IT security specialist. Maybe an other game developer wants us to play their game instead of 0 A.D. There could be several other motivations... It's a frustrating issue though, so I hope we'll find out what's going on exactly, and how to solve it. Well, you see, with a DDOS you need a target. To get the target's IP you have to attempt to connect to it, or hack up an XMPP client that collects reported host IPs. Without that there's no targeting of the community as a whole. While all the reasons you mention could be considered motivation, that doesn't exclude the need for a mechanism to obtain target IPs. Since this incident happened within a few minutes of Nedris' joining/parting, and no one else would have a motivation to drop the game, I'm hard pressed to find another actor. Either way, the deafening silence from @user1 is answer enough for me; we're on our own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, JohnDoe2 said: Either way, the deafening silence from @user1 is answer enough for me; we're on our own. You're not. User1 is doing its best behind the scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badosu Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 4 hours ago, mralex said: Maybe an other game developer wants us to play their game instead of 0 A.D. Well, if that was done by BAR developers, I must say it worked 2 hours ago, JohnDoe2 said: Well, you see, with a DDOS you need a target. To get the target's IP you have to attempt to connect to it, or hack up an XMPP client that collects reported host IPs. Without that there's no targeting of the community as a whole. While all the reasons you mention could be considered motivation, that doesn't exclude the need for a mechanism to obtain target IPs. Just sweep servers and ips on lobby. In any manner, attacker always targets specific targets, mostly op team games. 1v1s are spared (didn't hear a case where 1v1 was attacked). It's interesting that you had a case of this in a 1v1, I'd not rush to conclusions that it's the person you mentioned though, but it sure would be nice to find the attacker via clumsiness like here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDoe2 Posted December 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, badosu said: Well, if that was done by BAR developers, I must say it worked Just sweep servers and ips on lobby. In any manner, attacker always targets specific targets, mostly op team games. 1v1s are spared (didn't hear a case where 1v1 was attacked). It's interesting that you had a case of this in a 1v1, I'd not rush to conclusions that it's the person you mentioned though, but it sure would be nice to find the attacker via clumsiness like here. The whole BAR devs thing weighs very little on my motivation scale... Hopefully I'm not wrong, because that would be really awkward. As far as my conclusion, it's just a logical one, nothing to do with timelines. 36 minutes ago, Stan` said: You're not. User1 is doing its best behind the scenes. Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mralex Posted December 10, 2020 Report Share Posted December 10, 2020 Related topics "DDOS"?By @Emperior, May 26, 2019 in Help & Feedback Strange disconnection issue. [PLEASE UPLOAD REPLAYS]By @user1, June 11, 2020 in Help & Feedback When playing 0ad whole network disconnects. Network otherwise stable.By @Dizaka, September 2, 2020 in Gameplay Discussion Nedris (currently 1422) will DDOS without you pissing him off directlyBy @JohnDoe2, October 13, 2020 in General Discussion Attacks on 0ad (suspected DoS/DDoS)By @BoredRusher, November 26, 2020 in Bug reports Are you aware of the scale of DoS attacks?By @badosu, December 6, 2020 in Game Development & Technical Discussion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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