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    DDoS and now something new again?

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    • R Offline
      rampeer
      last edited by

      Just had trouble connecting to FAF / FAF forums desping having perfect connection to 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9

      Change instructions, please?

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      • T Offline
        Tpycuku_B_KpoBu
        last edited by Tpycuku_B_KpoBu

        I've encountered the same problem. When I enter the lobby, the game starts, and after a minute, I lose connection with all the players. If I go to the router settings, it shows that the download speed is 100 Mbps, and the upload speed is not significant. It takes a couple of minutes or a router reboot to restore the connection.

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        • RobogearR Offline
          Robogear
          last edited by Robogear

          Russian streamers have not been able to play normally since about February of this year, in 90% of games players start to drop out in the first 3-5 minutes of the game, just one by one, sometimes the streamer's internet drops out too (including me) and it looks like they've taken on all players now and not just breaking streamers' games
          You can just look at the average game length of my replays this year to see for yourself

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            Sainse Balance Team
            last edited by

            I didn't experience any connection issues related to me for a very long time. Today I played 1 game together with Robogear. It got ddosed 6 mins into the game (with an extra 3 minutes pause) #25499255. After that I've fully rebooted PC, yet another ddosed, the one when players loosing connection with seemingly everyone happened in the very next game #25499413

            My ping with google.com didn't exceed 200 ms in any of those games (I'm constantly runniung gping in background)

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            • NeytronN Offline
              Neytron
              last edited by Neytron

              this happened recently, I went into the game and after 4 minutes I started losing connection with everyone, faf was disconnected and the internet just didn't work, I couldn't open YouTube, twitch, check my internet speed, absolutely nothing worked, after 15 minutes passed, and I went into the game again, and again at 15+- minutes the same thing happened and the situation didn't improve until I reset my router settings

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              • LimeZ3_L Offline
                LimeZ3_
                last edited by

                Same here. I have a friend of mine with an HBO in network security, and as soon as he saw my router logs, he said its DEFINATELLY a targeted attack on a known IP address
                It really hurt me today because only today I learned that my provider issues a dynamic IP for 1 day, and I cant change it myself
                I'm in the Netherlands, so there's 0 hope to call my provider and ask him to change my ip when its 21 o clock, so my internet is basically dead until tomorrow.
                I played a game of faf 1.5 hours ago. Just a usuall 6v6. Then I see that I start lagging. My friend's voices on discord become robotic, my stream drops, and then ultimatelly I timeout to all other players in the game. 30 minutes in a match. And now I can still see that the attack continues and my home wifi is battling for its life. And its been over 1.5 hours since I disconnected from faf altogether.
                It restores connection for 1 or 2 minutes and then its dead again for like 10 minutes or so
                I guess Ill have to use mobile hotspot until tomorrow

                Playing faf with the possibility that my network dies altogether for days is out of the question, so I'm dropping this game until these dos attack issues are proven to be fixed

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                • LimeZ3_L Offline
                  LimeZ3_
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                  • NeytronN Offline
                    Neytron @Robogear
                    last edited by

                    @Robogear sorry but it is impossible to play with you much longer than since February, this is done by one of your viewers, I don't remember the last time I could play with you, even 2 years ago, I was already attacked on your stream, I don't blame you, it's not your fault that there are such people, I just mean that this problem was much earlier than February of this year

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                    • LimeZ3_L Offline
                      LimeZ3_ @LimeZ3_
                      last edited by

                      Can share my router's logs if someone thinks it might be useful to resolve the issue

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                      • N Online
                        Nuggets FAF Association Board @LimeZ3_
                        last edited by

                        @LimeZ3_ i dont know how it is in the netherlands, but for me my ip changes on router reboot

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                          Nuggets FAF Association Board
                          last edited by

                          This is kind of a massive issue. The attacker(s) can find out everyone's ip without being in the game itself and without connecting to the lobby (as i had restrictions enabled). So I assume people can find out the ip via chat in faf (as was the case once before a while ago).
                          Ofc i dont know this for certain, so take this with a grain of salt. I believe we cant even disconnect from the chat on purpose, there is only the option reconmect

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                            Kilatamoro @Nuggets
                            last edited by

                            @Nuggets One could damage their connection, thus disconnecting from FAF and chat, and then only reconnect to FAF.

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                              Sturmgewehr @Nuggets
                              last edited by

                              @Nuggets said in DDoS and now something new again?:

                              This is kind of a massive issue. The attacker(s) can find out everyone's ip without being in the game itself and without connecting to the lobby (as i had restrictions enabled).

                              If I didn't know better, I would say it's the live replay, where you can watch as an observer with a delay of a few minutes.

                              When you read about people's experiences, it's usually during these 3-5 minutes that there are in-game problems.

                              Are the IPs transmitted when connecting to a live replay, or can someone intercept them?

                              This particular problem doesn't seem to exist in matchmaking (at least one person has written about this).
                              I don't play matchmaking (ladder) myself, only global. So custom games.
                              In other words, what is displayed as a live replay.

                              Perhaps the live replay should be disabled on a trial basis.

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                                Kilatamoro @Sturmgewehr
                                last edited by Kilatamoro

                                @Sturmgewehr Matchmaker games are present in live replays.

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                                  Sturmgewehr @Kilatamoro
                                  last edited by

                                  @Kilatamoro said in DDoS and now something new again?:

                                  @Sturmgewehr I am pretty sure matchmaker games are also in live replays. Why wouldn't they be?

                                  The attacker must be getting the IPs from somewhere during ongoing games.
                                  If it's from the chat system, he could attack all IPs at once. But it happens a few minutes after a game has started.
                                  So he must know when a game has started, and he could find that out via the live replays (how else?).
                                  Perhaps matchmaking (ladder) games are not attacked because there are too few players/too little effect, because there are few players in a match and it's not worth it?

                                  Who knows, there must be some motivation behind it.
                                  At least I can say that custom games with +10 players are very often attacked.

                                  If they are attacks. No one is commenting on the situation.

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                                    Kilatamoro @Sturmgewehr
                                    last edited by

                                    @Sturmgewehr People say he attacks games with specific players, like streamers.

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                                    • Brutus5000B Offline
                                      Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                                      last edited by

                                      Our IRC should not expose ips. The live-replay server surely does not expose ips.
                                      However, if you are in a custom lobby and someone connects to you, then you expose your IP for da direct p2p connection.

                                      He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                                      Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                                      And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                                      Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                                      • xxx_LenKing_xxxX Offline
                                        xxx_LenKing_xxx @Brutus5000
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                                        @Brutus5000 , did u know, that no ru streamer can stream faf, because they have been ddosing since february non-stop, as soon as they start a game, they literally follow at least me, Putin and Robogear even at night. And if I played without a stream, everything was OK. But now they have started ddosing everyone, SO why not make same adapter like in GAF, that hide ur ip, im shure that they ddosed faf to try lure players to their server.

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                                        • xxx_LenKing_xxxX Offline
                                          xxx_LenKing_xxx
                                          last edited by

                                          this problem has been going on for more than two years, what's the problem with making a new connector so as not to show the IP? Is there really any doubt that this is a DDoS or is there hope that it will somehow stop on its own? I assure you, FAF will be killed if nothing is done now. These DDoSers will do this endlessly.

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                                          • Brutus5000B Offline
                                            Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                                            last edited by

                                            The ice adapter can do that in theory. This is called using a relay server. We used to run our own but they get killed by DDoS too. Now we are running the relay servers at a 3rd party provider but they are very expensive. so we cannot allow everybody to use it just to hide their ips.

                                            We tried a cheaper provider but it doesn't work with the current ice adapter. So we're trying to rewrite it, but it doesn't work reliably beyond 1v1

                                            He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                                            Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                                            And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                                            Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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