Era Offline?

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:18 am

Tim_Rocks wrote:: There really isn't jack shit anyone can do about this, which sucks.

They cant get in contact with the guys they rent the servers from and get them guys to do something at there end? I'm sure theres ways to do something about it.... If you're talking about the ddos attacks.

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Kohola_KinG wrote:

Tim_Rocks wrote:: There really isn't jack shit anyone can do about this, which sucks.

They cant get in contact with the guys they rent the servers from and get them guys to do something at there end? I'm sure theres ways to do something about it.... If you're talking about the ddos attacks.

DDoS attacks can usually be contained at the router level by dropping packets from the attack IPs before they reach the server, but it depends a lot on the type of attack (e.g. if it's a SYN flood this will actually cause more problems). There are practical solutions to mitigate the attack but they may not be in a position to implement them depending on the type of infrastructure they rent (they probably don't control the upstream routers and good proactive DDoS protection can be expensive and may not even be offered).

In their position it sounds like they're taking the best path and provisioning additional servers to handle the attack while a backend server handles legitimate requests after they've been sifted through.

If they had moved onto EC2, which they talked about a few years ago, this would be a lot easier for them to handle.

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:33 am

If this goes on all week Era's down the shitter no one will play

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:35 am

Suicide wrote:: If this goes on all week Era's down the shitter no one will play

It'll not be like this all week. In order for these attacks to happen whoever is doing this has to leave his machine on. Nobody is going to leave there machine on. Correct me if i'm wrong.

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Kohola_KinG wrote:

Suicide wrote:: If this goes on all week Era's down the shitter no one will play

It'll not be like this all week. In order for these attacks to happen whoever is doing this has to leave his machine on. Nobody is going to leave there machine on. Correct me if i'm wrong.

They are probably using a small botnet to perform the attacks. In the past they've infected computers with cheating tools for Graal that also included a trojan. A single machine, especially one on a home connection, would be hard-pressed to shut down server-grade equipment.

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Just start disconnecting random trials.

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Just heard from Stefan that the server is being moved back to Texas, presumably Dallas.

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:30 am

Chris wrote:: Just heard from Stefan that the server is being moved back to Texas, presumably Dallas.

Really?

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Chris wrote:: Just heard from Stefan that the server is being moved back to Texas, presumably Dallas.

why fucking texas?? my lag used to go down to 150 and rarely go over 200 when the server was on the east coast......

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bloodykiller wrote:: why fucking texas?? my lag used to go down to 150 and rarely go over 200 when the server was on the east coast......

The server was never on the east coast. Presumably they believe Texas is better centered around their customers than New York.

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so where was it before they moved it to texas? it was about 18 months ago

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:53 am

Just give me a yes or no answer.

Will this move lower latency for european players?

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:37 am

Kohola_KinG wrote:: Just give me a yes or no answer.

Will this move lower latency for european players?

It will be closer to europe than seattle is, so most likely.

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Era is back in Dallas Smile

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Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:43 am

Booger Scelus wrote:

Kohola_KinG wrote:: Just give me a yes or no answer.

Will this move lower latency for european players?

It will be closer to europe than seattle is, so most likely.

Yeah it's now lower. I went from 200ms to 140.

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:24 am

70ms ftw

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:37 pm

I went from 60-110. I finally get to eat some bullets. Fear me bitches and feel the pain of low ms.

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:00 pm

60 MS...

I enjoyed Fireman Axing people more.

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it's a tiny difference..it's still pretty damn bad just as it was before it went to seattle

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I see some people with ~40-50 ms rofl

Ran a test:
Average server ping: 141 ms

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:44 am

I had 50 MS ALWAYS about a month ago, now it's always 60-100.

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BlueMelon wrote:: I see some people with ~40-50 ms rofl

Ran a test:
Average server ping: 141 ms

yeah this is terrible...141 should be the ping (more or less) u get from one side of the world to the other

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bloodykiller wrote:

BlueMelon wrote:: I see some people with ~40-50 ms rofl

Ran a test:
Average server ping: 141 ms

yeah this is terrible...141 should be the ping (more or less) u get from one side of the world to the other

Its alot better then 850 we got from the previous server.

Subject: Re: Era Offline? Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:06 pm

I am me wrote:: I had 50 MS ALWAYS about a month ago, now it's always 60-100.

Les pauvres.