Deann3 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Just now, Pussycat Catnap said: Actually the 'people who design the "game"' have been optimizing it for years now to make it less laggy, more stable, and faster performing. The problem is we get a lot of people who are "this is my f-bombing world and you f-bombers can sod off about me reducing my lag over here on my parcel on the sim we share" - people that load up on nasty scripts, badly optimized mesh, over-sized textures, and so on... and zap sims, cause lag, and then blame Linden Lab. BUT both that and your comment are likely wholly unrelated to today's fiasco. Today feels like the end of Net Neutrality is a few days early... and we're getting jacked... or something... Chances are somebody got perma-banned and is responding with a DDOS attack... (that's how this plays out in a lot of MMOs at least). But it does feel like a DDOS attack... Call me a troglodite, but wat's a DDOS? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalonsFallenAngel Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Still not in, 2 hours, 23 minutes, and counting.... 22, 23,24, 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby43 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 8 minutes ago, Daeran said: These are the days it feels good to have an opensim grid to log into. Something to be said for other "worlds" even if they don't have all the bells and whistles. agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatheticSissy Snowfox Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, Deann3 said: Call me a troglodite, but wat's a DDOS? DDoS is short for Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often infected with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Deann3 said: Call me a troglodite, but wat's a DDOS? Distributed Denial of Service attack. Basically hacker A takes the CPUs of a few hundred thousand computers on the net, and has them all hit Server B at the same time. -The old Viewer Emerald was banned from SL because it had code to let one of it's developers use any computer that was running Emerald to do this... He snuck it in there unbeknownst to the other devs (as the story goes)... but the offense if a felony criminal act... so they flat out tossed the entire viewer out of SL. These days... any developer can add a small snippet of JavaScript to a webpage that will secretly hijack a visiting computer and force it to mine crypto-currency... it's supposedly very easy to do this... Now if we flip that around, we can presume most of us are partially hacked in one way or another. And by most of us I mean most of the entire internet, not SL users per se... and so any hacker could probably pay the 'right people' to have a whole mess of comupters 'aimed' at a desired target... all without the users of those machines ever knowing it... (except your computer might get hot, the fan might spin up... and if an Android phone it might even melt...). Edited February 27, 2018 by Pussycat Catnap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 i got kicked out sl and now i cant log in keeps saying to go to link and when do it says resolved its not my network or my firewall this is bs made me lose ls on a no devil game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatheticSissy Snowfox Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 also The DDoS attack will attempt to make an online service or website unavailable by flooding it with unwanted traffic from multiple computers. ... The attacker can then instruct and control the botnet, commanding it to flood a certain site with traffic: so much that its network ceases to work, taking the site offline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby43 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Deann3 said: Call me a troglodite, but wat's a DDOS? DDOS = Distribution Denial Of Service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 is in anyone in yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deann3 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Okay, so DDOS is clearly something severe. Geeze, someone must be having an major hissie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatheticSissy Snowfox Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 6 minutes ago, AmberHabibiYousif said: is in anyone in yet I was able to log in still hanging around my Home, Only thing is it no else on grid with me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 wow i still cant get on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deann3 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Little side thingy, I thought LL banned bots. I know for the first few when i was on with an old avi the bots totally hogged up all of the linden $ earning slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karri Steerpike Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, AmberHabibiYousif said: is in anyone in yet Not yet, we are still trying to get in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, Deann3 said: Okay, so DDOS is clearly something severe. Geeze, someone must be having an major hissie. We don't know it's a DDoS. That's just our random theory... It could very well be a dog chewed a wire in an office somewhere... an intern spilled some coffee... or somebody hit that red button by the machine in the back room thinking it was the light switch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 wonders how long its going to take for them to get it fixed this is bs they need new servers that the old crap they have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deann3 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Deann3 said: Little side thingy, I thought LL banned bots. I know for the first few when i was on with an old avi the bots totally hogged up all of the linden $ earning slots. They were more sly than that. They created the registered bot system. You can have a bot as long as you register it. Once you it no longer counts for traffic. But bots are actually extremely useful for SL. Many land and merchant systems use them to handle filing payments and such... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 wonders how long its going to take for them to get it fixed this is bs they need new servers that the old crap they have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karri Steerpike Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 finally back in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberHabibiYousif Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 when i look at status it says fixed and operational wth thats a lie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby43 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Just now, AmberHabibiYousif said: when i look at status it says fixed and operational wth thats a lie They always lie or post something after the fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby43 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 coming back now hopefully no one gets kicked again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenLantern Excelsior Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 So it's not a lie then? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby43 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 minute ago, GreenLantern Excelsior said: So it's not a lie then? LOL Your here arent you, 3 hours after they said it was fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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