Senorris wrote:A DDoS can take from a day to a year, so be patient and stop asking.
The staff will give us an answer, eventually. Just go do something else.
A DDoS can take only 3 minutes ( 180s ) to attack, but it keeps the server offline until someone restarts it, and when it's online again, it gets attacked, this can be stopped by closing the port the hacker is using to attack the server. But that's not possible, they surely use port 7777 to attack the server, and closing that port will prevent us from joining the server, also, if there's a new port, you will see it in the server IP after the server.ls-rp.com:xxxx, so they could attack again.
Single thing to do is to wait until they stop (get them jailed asap) and until admins find a way to fix this.
Also, the host also matters, if the host is weak, the attacker doesn't need too many botnets to attack and crash the server, but if the host server is strong, he'll need way more botnets to crash the server.
For example, the attacker has 1000 botnets, that means 1000 internets, let's call it like this, that 1000 internets connect in the same 0,01 second to the server, overflooding the host and messing everything up. Maybe setting a connection limit to the number of players may fix the problem? Because if the attacker attacks with 1000 botnets for example, only 500 ( the number of slots ) could connect, but if the server is half-full or full, there would be less botnets that could connect.
I'm just making theories, I'm not an expert in this, I just hope everything will get fixed.
By the way, I may be new in the community and have little experience of the server, but I used DDoS-ers before (to attack players of DotA so they'll crash, because they used maphack)
The attack is done by IP:Port
There's a forum of hackers, not gonna mention it here, most of you know it, where people sell this thing of programs for a really low price, maybe that's where they get it, they buy it, insert ip, and click Attack. Even a kid of 10 years old could do it, buy it, write info needed, click Attack, no need hacking skills, they are just Script kiddie (how hackers call kids who download programs and "hack" with them.)
Hope you guys figure out it soon, I really wanna play and RP :)
Sorry for my grammar mistakes, hope you guys understood what I said there.
Good luck.
Edit: I know why I have been warned, sorry for my mistake, I'll accept my punishment.
Edit 2: Posted this for my own amusement
http://9gag.com/gag/4672639