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    DDoS and now something new again?

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    • P Offline
      Prophet-
      last edited by

      man this is frustrating. half my games i disconnect within 6 minutes of the game starting. Completely drops my internet. These losers need to get a life and stop trying to ruin FAF

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      • R Offline
        rampeer
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        Same. Now, I failed to connect to players in any lobby -- am I being personally attacked, due to my IP being exposed?

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        • KnownSniperK Offline
          KnownSniper
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          Had the first time experiencing this like 2-3 weeks ago when somewhere in the first 0-5 min of a game like 5/6 out of 12 ppl's internet completely bricked.

          Since then i've had my internet crash like 2/3 times (most of the time only for +-2 min), and for comparison i normally have issues like once a year.

          Dont have any logs sadly didn't think of it, just putting it here as another point on a graph.

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            Defiant @LimeZ3_
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            @LimeZ3_ said in DDoS and now something new again?:

            HBO in network security

            What is "an HBO in network security"?

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            • N Offline
              Nuggets FAF Association Board
              last edited by

              I was not aware that public ips can be seen in any game. Since i now know this i will never play faf without vpn again because this is an absolute disaster for someone like me who hosts his own stuff

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              • JipJ Offline
                Jip @Brutus5000
                last edited by

                @Nuggets As far as I am aware, all games that use peer to peer will in general expose your IP. Supreme Commander is not any different here. There's an interesting support ticket about the topic from Steam Support:

                • https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1433-AD20-F11D-B71E

                The solution is to work via relays. Which is what Brutus describes here:

                @Brutus5000 said in DDoS and now something new again?:

                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

                We're not there yet though. And we could really use the help of people with the right expertise to investigate it further.

                A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                • N Offline
                  Nuggets FAF Association Board
                  last edited by

                  I didnt formulate myself correctly. I was aware that you see ips of others while ingame with them. However, these attacks happened by people outside of these games without ever having connected to the lobby

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                  • K Offline
                    Kilatamoro
                    last edited by

                    Time to take out my "The end is near" sign. This shit is legit scary. I am not logging in until this is over.

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                    • ZeldafanboyZ Offline
                      Zeldafanboy
                      last edited by

                      Anecdotally, after mucking around in 2 lobbies that instantly crashed for 40 mins, I went to play Starcraft 2 ladder and got 2 disconnects that forced me to forfeit a few hours apart, which is very rare (2 in one day is unheard of). So yeah I would not play custom lobbies without unplugging your router for 10 mins afterward if you play other competitive games like Starcraft or Counter Strike because until your IP changes it's gonna get hit.

                      Really unfortunate stuff, although I can't say I'm surprised people this manchildtarded lurk among the playerbase.

                      put the xbox units in the game pls u_u

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                      • H Offline
                        hulgarth
                        last edited by

                        Same thing here. Thought my pc was broken. I even timed out connecting to this forum. AFter exiting the game nothing would load until I ran a network test and the Nvidia overlay popped up like id just entered a game again and my internet suddenly works perfectly.

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                        • xxx_LenKing_xxxX Offline
                          xxx_LenKing_xxx
                          last edited by

                          SO how GAF makes their new Fire adapter? Does they spend so much money for this? Do faf realy cant spend donations to save server? Im sure it shouldnt cost so much money anyway, it cant be superexpensive just to fix this fuckn ip leak. Do this or faf dies, dont u understand? Let's just wait for it to go away on its own as always.

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                          • LimeZ3_L Offline
                            LimeZ3_ @LimeZ3_
                            last edited by

                            I checked with my internet provider
                            They said "your IP is dynamic and it changes automatically once every 24 h"
                            There is no way I can change my IP myself, outside of that

                            Make t3 mex, not war

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                              LimeZ3_ @xxx_LenKing_xxx
                              last edited by

                              @Lenkin
                              Just a "what if"
                              What if GAF has all the same vulnerabilities, but just doesn't get ddosed?
                              I can only guess the reasons why.

                              Make t3 mex, not war

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                              • LimeZ3_L Offline
                                LimeZ3_ @Defiant
                                last edited by

                                @Defiant university degree, dutch version

                                Make t3 mex, not war

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                                • DeribusD Offline
                                  Deribus Moderator @LimeZ3_
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                                  @LimeZ3_ said in DDoS and now something new again?:

                                  @Lenkin
                                  Just a "what if"
                                  What if GAF has all the same vulnerabilities, but just doesn't get ddosed?
                                  I can only guess the reasons why.

                                  My understanding is GAF does get DDOSed, but it routes all its connections through a central server so it's much less of a problem. It can do that because it has MUCH fewer players than FAF does

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                                    Sturmgewehr
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                                    @Brutus5000 Is it possible to have a client update for the weekend where all connections go through relay only, to see what happens?
                                    Better / worse / the same.

                                    Currently completely unplayable.
                                    Unless you are already working on a good solution, I don't see any other plan that can be implemented quickly to possibly improve the situation.

                                    At the very least, further steps could then be planned based on the knowledge gained.

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                                      Prophet- @xxx_LenKing_xxx
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                                      @Lenkin is GAF getting DDossed too? i

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                                      • GiebmasseG Offline
                                        Giebmasse Team Lead FAF Association Board Moderator Admin
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                                        https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/197078254681587712/1413952423827079249

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                                        • Brutus5000B Offline
                                          Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin @Sturmgewehr
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                                          @Sturmgewehr said in DDoS and now something new again?:

                                          @Brutus5000 Is it possible to have a client update for the weekend where all connections go through relay only, to see what happens?
                                          Better / worse / the same.

                                          Currently completely unplayable.
                                          Unless you are already working on a good solution, I don't see any other plan that can be implemented quickly to possibly improve the situation.

                                          At the very least, further steps could then be planned based on the knowledge gained.

                                          Yes, this is what we did for now. If this solves it, we'll work on more cost-effective solutions to keep it like that.

                                          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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                                          • G Offline
                                            Gibsaw
                                            last edited by

                                            Well, whatever has been done. I can no longer connect AT ALL. Goes straight from "checking" to "disconnected" for all players.

                                            So how do I help? Logs? If so, where do I upload them?

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