This Evening's Downtime Explained

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  1. Collin

    Collin Retired Owner

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    As many of you may have noticed, Minetime's game server connections experienced some minor instability today. All 24 of Minetime's front-end nodes were hammered with high-bandwidth DDoS attacks. The attacks Minetime experienced are called NTP attacks -- which are powerful and new. You can read more about them here.

    We constantly monitor our network for malicious activity, and eventually mitigated all of the attacks. There was a struggle of control around 9:10 PM CST, with Minetime winning the war around 10:45 CST. This is when you may have noticed the most connectivity issues.

    We are putting measures in place to make sure attacks like this do not affect our network in the future. Thanks for your patience and maturity throughout the situation. - Collin
     
    #1 Collin, Feb 19, 2014
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  2. ArticMelon

    ArticMelon New Member

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    Glad to see everything worked out! I was worried if something VERY bad was happening... Glad you guys won the war! :3
     
    #2 ArticMelon, Feb 20, 2014
  3. Volga

    Volga Expert Member

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    Wow, I didn't know such an attack extisted. Fascinating to read into :D Anyway, I thought minetime was protected by Black Lotus and could not be harmed and was under 24hour surveillance?
    This explains the lag spikes and bungee jumping in fps, thanks for the info ;)
     
    #3 Volga, Feb 20, 2014
  4. Collin

    Collin Retired Owner

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    Website is
     
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  5. Volga

    Volga Expert Member

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    I'm surprised someone was able to find/attack all 24 locations at once... You have some real haters out there
     
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    ArticMelon New Member

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    Why would anyone hate Collin? He's awesome! :D
     
    #6 ArticMelon, Feb 20, 2014
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  7. Gineley

    Gineley New Member

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    :O Who might have done it? Can't you track the base IP?
     
    #7 Gineley, Feb 20, 2014
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    My ideas was that if you try to DDoS us, a picture of @CollinPotato's cat will pop up and ask you if you're "weally sure" that you want to do that. That would be the best mitigation.
     
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  9. StarfletcherBANNED

    StarfletcherBANNED I can have whatever title I want

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    It would be the funniest mitigation.
     
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  10. Collin

    Collin Retired Owner

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    There's no way for us to do that and we're not interested in doing that.
     
    #10 Collin, Feb 20, 2014
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    I hate DDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
    #11 Hasan, Feb 20, 2014
  12. jayzz

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    That sucks. Hope you can intercept it soon.
     
    #12 jayzz, Feb 20, 2014
  13. ikbenbjorn

    ikbenbjorn Forum Enthusiast

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    the blond one right ??? on his Skype ???
     
    #13 ikbenbjorn, Feb 20, 2014
  14. Richiecat62

    Richiecat62 Forum Enthusiast

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    I still don't get that and the fact I am only 10, xD
     
    #14 Richiecat62, Feb 20, 2014
  15. Gineley

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    You guys don't want revenge?
     
    #15 Gineley, Feb 20, 2014
  16. Collin

    Collin Retired Owner

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    I don't think you understand this situation at all.
     
    #16 Collin, Feb 20, 2014
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  17. cool_o_boy44

    cool_o_boy44 New Member

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    Its more of a safety of the players thing. Not revenge.
     
    #17 cool_o_boy44, Feb 20, 2014
  18. Volga

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    "The best revenge is massive success."
    ~Frank Sinatra
     
    #18 Volga, Feb 20, 2014
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    Why would collin fall down to their level?? Anyways collin is to busy helping and making the server better for everyone ^.^
     
    #19 hornom123', Feb 20, 2014
  20. eaglechen

    eaglechen Dedicated Minetimer

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    Minetime has (I believe) advanced firewall and protection. I believe it takes a massively experienced hacker and good facility to do this.
     
    #20 eaglechen, Feb 20, 2014
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