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DoS Attack Forces EVE Online Offline

Posted by timothy on from the tried-turning-it-off-and-back-on-again dept.

Resorting to the out-of-band messaging that is Facebook, CCP Games has announced that "At 02:05 GMT June 2nd, CCP became aware of a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the Tranquility cluster (which houses EVE Online and DUST 514) and web servers."

4 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would anyone launch a DoS attack on EVE online servers?!"
    Nerds should not attack other nerds. :P

  2. Re:How can you DDoS an MMO? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do the gaming servers respond to requests from non-players?

    I assume that there is, at very least, some sort of authentication service that has to evaluate a request to determine whether or not it comes from a player...

  3. Re:Correction by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really want to get into details here because it gets really technical,

    This is Slashdot. What else is Slashdot good for, if not "really technical"?

  4. Re:The wives of EVE by Corbets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wives? Girlfriends? Obviously, you've never met anyone who plays EVE Online.