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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."

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  1. So... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What kind of intricate in-game machinations will this turn out to be connected to?

  2. Eve Offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those hopelessly addicted, there are two solutions:

    1) practice on the singularity server (aka test server)
    2) play the flash version.