[thraadash]

Dear Users,

We, the staff of Minegarde, would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. As of late, we have been assaulted by a series of DDOS attacks. The most recent of which, crashed the server. We are currently in the process of stabilizing the site, but it may go down at any time again.

Please be patient as we try to rectify the situation. We'd like to thank you so much for continuing to support us even in times like this.


Save whatever guides you use most often in case.


If you see anything amiss on the site, broken pages, site options out of place..etc..etc..etc...please contact HotGamerMum and let her know so we can try to fix it as soon as possible.

Thank you all again.

Lastly and most importantly, credit to getting site back up goes to kenshinjeff.

[Tuddle]

DDOS attacks?
whats that?

[One]

Distributed Denial of Service

or something

[Jask]

Distributed Denial Of Services. Someone floods the server with requests for pages/info/etc. so much that the server slows down or even crashes. It's a somewhat common form of attack used on the internet. You may have heard the term in recent news articles about the whole WikiLeaks events.

Edit: One had it right.

This post has been edited by Jask: 11 December 2010 - 07:35 AM

[Quel33]

Thanks for the warning. And for the window of opportunity to save my RPG rules...Thanks Minegarde Ruling Council, lol.

[Nosuke]

Yeah, I sense a DDOS yesterday, that sucks! lol!

[Bobofango]

Who the hell would DDOS minegarde?

[Mad Hatter]

No need to apologize. Not your fault we got flooded all to hell. At least now I know why I couldn't get on yesterday and today.

[Nosuke]

Bobofango, on 11 December 2010 - 03:51 PM, said:

Who the hell would DDOS minegarde?

Script Kiddies who wanted to prove they are good.

Distributed Denial Of Service Attack; meaning using multiple IP to connect to www.minegarde.com multiple times, by sending TCP/SYN packets again and again (up to a few thousand times). This will force minegarde to reply to this request by sending back the acknowledgement for every single request(ACK packets) to those IP, thus exceeding the server bandwidth and causes the server to crash.

Alternatively, DDOS attack could be cause by running a vulnerability scanner; such as Nessus. Vulnerability scanner scan for all the open ports on a server, and the exploit on the open ports so that they could use it to hack the web server. (www.minegarde.com). This would generate lots of traffic unintentionally and causes Minegarde to crash as well.

For script kiddies, all they can do is to download a 3rd party program and use it to cause the attack, thinking they are good. But they are just hackers wannabes.

This post has been edited by Nosuke: 11 December 2010 - 08:13 AM

[Aspheric]

... ( = =)

Great, just great.

Oh, would you look at that my avy's dead aswell...

This post has been edited by Aspheric: 11 December 2010 - 09:02 AM

[Yami no Seigi]

Expecting something like this to happen

I wonder if the one who did DDoS is butthurt with Minegarde for some reason?

[thraadash]

There would be many such individuals.

But, as long as we can, we'll keep it up as long as possible. We will not give up so easily.

[HiddenStar]

Thank god... I thought I'd lost it. We need some way of contacting each other to find out what's happening

[Nebilim]

Bobofango, on 11 December 2010 - 04:51 AM, said:

Who the hell would DDOS minegarde?

The real question is: why they would do this?....I simple cannot imagine how people from here pissed off someone.This site is dedicated to have a nice discussion and help everyone,the only things that came in my mind is either trolling or someone is irate for minegarde not wanting or saying that will not release a english patch,at least for now.
Just look the case of LiquidPingPong,the guy was doing a favor for everyone and got his life destroyed by selfish,kiddy bastards that coulnd wait a week.

This post has been edited by Nebilim: 11 December 2010 - 02:31 PM

[Molo]

HiddenStar, on 11 December 2010 - 09:42 PM, said:

Thank god... I thought I'd lost it. We need some way of contacting each other to find out what's happening

Mibbit chatroom

Channel: #socb

[BizzarreCoyote]

Well, good to see Minegarde back, at the very least. I'm still confused as to who would do something like this, but at the same time...

Likely some butthurt idiot the staff has banned at some point.

[HiddenStar]

Oh... Thanks Molo

[S13driftAZ]

Nosuke, on 11 December 2010 - 01:11 AM, said:

For script kiddies, all they can do is to download a 3rd party program and use it to cause the attack, thinking they are good. But they are just hackers wannabes.

Exactly. Anyone who thinks they're BA goes and downloads whats called a 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' and screw with people. This thing is actually available to download on sourceforge. It also could be a botnet that had infected one of our registered member's computers.

[Kince]

internet being flooded with emo kids that gets hurts by every imagined slights....
the problem is that they got too much time on their hands and too many resources gotten from the internet by googling.

but then again.... nothing new...

seems like there was a minor roll back from all the crashes.

This post has been edited by Kince: 12 December 2010 - 11:43 AM

[ClownWillEatMe]

Lol
It could be LegendaryVirgin, making good on his threats.