have you heard of the ddos attack on battle.net

[andreasaspenberg]

i found it out today through the battle.net app. it is affecting connections between players and battle.net.

 

[gorillabull]

well thats funny how would you do a denial of service attack on servers which only handle accounts with a paid subscription

 

[andreasaspenberg]

there is several things that doesnt require a paid subscription. diablo 3, starcraft 2, hearthstone and world of warcraft starter edition and test realms. the information came directly from the battle.net app so it is valid.

 

[gorillabull]

well i didnt see anything on any bliz sites so it must have been something minor

 

[andreasaspenberg]

it was so major that they had to shut down battle.net tonight and it still isnt back up.(at the time i write this.)

 

[PurgeandFire]

AFAIK it was something in Europe with their online services, but it is supposedly unrelated to Blizzard (ofc, the connections to them might've suffered, but I don't think it was something on Blizzard's end).

But I think that was a while back. Usually Blizzard's server problems are unrelated to DDOSing.

And it is up for me right now (it went down a little while back, but it was only for a little while). Yesterday they had maintenance, so it may be related to that.

 

[Statharas]

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10495060137

'gawd damn srsly.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that thing i knew about because i wanted to play starcraft 2 today but the ddos attack was the day before and listed in the battle.net app.

 

[Statharas]

Scheduled maintenance.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that was after the ddos attack.

 

[Statharas]

....

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i didnt create this topic to argue but rather to have a civilized discussion about the matter.

 

[Statharas]

There is no matter. There was no DDoS. There was maintenance.

 

[Heinvers]

i didnt create this topic to argue but rather to have a civilized discussion about the matter.

Nothing else to do at home? *yawn* *falls asleep*

 

[andreasaspenberg]

there was a ddos attack and i got the information directly through the battle.net app. the maintenance was after the ddos attack. dont blame me for you failing to read the news. i use the battle.net app rather often and near the bottom there was a message about a ddos attack.

 

[LordDz]

Here we go:
DDos attacks on European Online Services

"Diablo, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Hearthstone players in European regions may be impacted with latency problems and unwanted disconnections due to a series of DDoS attacks on “certain European online services,” Blizzard has warned.

So it was more that some internet services in europe were attacked and therefore users could have problems using Battle.net as their online services were ddosed.

 

[Statharas]

by Luke Reilly
March 31, 2014

Literally a month ago.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that means that what i saw wasnt the first but the first i noticed however. it could however affect blizzard`s trust in online only play.

 

[Heinvers]

You literally make me cry right now:x STAPH IT!

 

[andreasaspenberg]

please let us keep this civilized. i can certainly understand why people would attack battle.net when so many games use it in order to try to convince blizzard to reduce the dependency of battle.net.

 

[PurgeandFire]

It is the online services' fault, not Blizzard's, and it isn't really a common occurrence (unless you're a streamer). Besides, DDoSing is already
pretty prevalent through skype, and it hasn't led to any reduced dependency on battle.net. What would they use instead?
Offline play? It might make sense in some rare cases, but due to the way games have to be patched and updated, I think
it is better for them to require online play. I can see a case made for Sc2, but I still think it is better for patches to have
an immediate effect.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Blizzard gets DoSed all the time because their EU server centre obviously shares resources with some other high risk services (which is not openly disclosed or even Blizzard knows).

Where these resources are is not openly disclosed as well, but some blue tech guys hinted that it commonly is congestion for DoS attacks down the line from their server centre causing connections to fail.

Recently this has happened a lot, with about 3 cases since the new year. It is not a DoS against Battlenet, but other targets that share resources with them such as bandwidth.