2012-01-25, 09:28 PM
Raul Wrote:Uh huh.
Yeah, given that my VPN service is also being a little pomegranate, I'm inclined to believe that these people are just masquerading. Anyone can put up a link to LOIC or HOIC and put an IP address. Doesn't make them uber-pro h4x0rs last time I checked.
Seems to me that since Anonymous DDoS'd everyone they didn't like, people are seeing DDoS's everywhere.
Thing is, if this were simply a result of solar activity or some other general noise on the internet, you wouldn't see neat crashes of all channels in all servers except for one or two channels for each server.
Recall that each physical computer runs multiple channels (between 2 and 7, depending on how new it is and how busy the server is), so the likelihood of all instances but one crashing is pretty low. It could happen if Nexon did something that causes "deadlocks", which force the OS/DB to terminate all but one of the deadlocked processes, but somehow I doubt they did that randomly this morning and couldn't figure out how to undo it for hours and hours.
Therefore, this is obviously the result of malicious activity. Now, it could be a bunch of the usual channel-crashers, suddenly perfectly coordinated across all servers, and for some obscure reason crashing all but one instead of the usual one channel that is sufficient for duping. Or it could be someone else with a different "agenda" which is pretty much plain vandalism and griefing.
I don't claim to know. I'm just speculating while I wait for the situation to be resolved.