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[quote="JACKELPUP"]The DoS (or DdoS) attacks are now well beyond a joke. I realise that the GMs have asked us not to speculate as to who is behind it and I don’t wish to provoke speculation. Is anyone able to clarify; 1) Is this actually a criminal offence ? 2) Is the “attack” coming from inside the UK ? 3) Have the attacks been reported as an offence (GM please) If it is not a “criminal offence” or if it is and is has not been reported (and it is from someone inside the UK), could someone who knows who the assailant is please private message me their personal details. I have no doubt that these attacks have already had a significant negative impact on this game/service and unless they stop, the game will inevitably cease to exist. Notwithstanding the differences that many of us have “in game”, I am sure we all want Soma to continue. A huge thank you to iSlyver and the team for all their efforts and continued efforts for making Soma life possible again – it is genuinely appreciated. Jac [/quote]

[quote="KVOTHE"]Usualy the sign of a doomed server when ppl start ddossin', so many people who have run servers get super wound up and just shut it down because they havent the time or patience to deal with these children =o/ ... Really hope sylver and finito hold it together and dont make a rash decision to give up on this awesome project :o/[/quote]

[quote="LUPISCUS"]New host tonight/tomorro ...(weekend at the latest) .. all being sorted... every1 will be back..relax.. isylv/finito sorting us out .. :)[/quote]

[quote="BRAINDATA"]How does the new host change anything? I thought the issue with the current host is that to defend from the Ddos attack it blocks all traffic for 8 hrs.. so whats the new host gonna do.. just go down every 5 mins?? [/quote]

[quote="BRADLEY_COLE"]they wouldn't shut it down cus of one person being a pure cunt too other 100+ on the server they will do there best and it will be all sorted cant wait tho [/quote]

[quote="BRADLEY_COLE"][quote="BRAINDATA"]How does the new host change anything? I thought the issue with the current host is that to defend from the Ddos attack it blocks traffic for 8 hrs.. so what the new host will just go down every 5 mins?? [/quote] they will get back too u on that one its weird, new host's stop doss attacks on the server i think :o[/quote]

[quote="TOLIC"]we don't need another thread about the DDos attacks. they are sorting it and the less discussion about it the better things will be they are moving to a better host which I believe has better protection against these attacks we just have to be patience until they finialise the move which could take time. they have given us an earliest date (Wednesday evening) which they think it could be sorted. so until then chill out refrain from making more threads about it and wait until the server becomes stable [/quote]

[quote="ARKALOS"]The workaround the current ISP does, is the same and easy solution for most of the providers out there...they block the victim because its impossible for this kind of attack to block the hunderds of source addresses that are attacking....If you guys plan on putting a smart enough firewall in between the soma server and the outter world, make sure u place it as far away as possible from the soma server. This needs good cooperation and will from the isp's Administrators... Another thing u can do is form a kind of "topology hiding" mechanism so noone knows the real ip address of the Soma Server, but the "public" ip addresses of the so called "proxies". Of course, the attacker will start hitting these addresses too...it will be more difficult for him though to cause a DDoS to a well set-up proxy. Plus that u can place proxies all over the world so players will have more paths to reach the soma server, and the bad guys will need much more power to take all of them down....[/quote]

[quote="SPACKER"]Jesus Christ another ddoss thread, Gms are dealing with it, they don't need you spamming the forum. Making thread after thread is only going to have a negative look on soma .[/quote]

[quote="HURRICANE"]I know, another pointless thread, we are all in the same position, all i can say is i cant wait to hardcore whens its back up with shit load of rested :)[/quote]

[quote="KEKKET"]They are moving server to a more secure host Please No more topics about this.[/quote]

[quote="NEBULAA"][quote="JACKELPUP"] could someone who knows who the assailant is please private message me their personal details. [/quote] LoL[/quote]

[quote="POISON"]Nice to hear because I was coming back..logged into game and char froze at trolls..prob dead in town as a dw was heading my way...no biggy :) Cya in game when it's back up or on a new host :)[/quote]

[quote="LINNYI"][quote="POISON"]Nice to hear because I was coming back..logged into game and char froze at trolls..prob dead in town as a dw was heading my way...no biggy :) Cya in game when it's back up or on a new host :)[/quote] LOL nice to hear doubt the rest of the community would agree with you[/quote]