Unplayable lag on Dustbowl NY+

[Diggs]

Just an FYI - Title says it. Many players left a little after 9:30 PM (central) but it had been going on most of the night. Worst I had ever seen it.

 

[Meowcenary]

Yeah we're aware of some odd lag stuff going on. Not sure if Bottiger knows yet but people have been trying to get his attention in the IRC, so if he doesn't know yet give it some time and he'll come by and look into it.

Thanks for bringing it up tho.

 

[Bottiger]

Here is what one of our hosts said.

We are seeing many DDoS attacks tonight, against a wide variety of customers, making use of a newly-formed, huge botnet. These attacks are large enough to cause upstream saturation. Our systems are rapidly null-routing every targeted IP address, but the short delay before each null-route takes effect means that there is a period of increased packet loss for all customers at the location for 30-60 seconds.

As always, we are analyzing the attacks and working to mitigate them for our customers using a variety of methods other than null-routes. This is only a temporary spike upward in DDoS effectiveness because of a specific new, extra-large botnet..