Daybreak Games websites and games seem to be intermittently offline starting at 5:15pm PDT.
Update: Players have been reporting that they’re able to login for the last 15 minutes or so. I am logged in and experiencing some lag.
Update from Twitter:
We are aware of current connectivity issues and are working to resolve them. Thanks for your patience.
— Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) December 30, 2015
The EQ2 Forums have been updated with this notice from Ops:
Status: 12/29/2015 17:45 PST – We are currently investigating a potential issue with network connectivity to the game.
well guess its time to get food then 🙂
Issue seems resolved. There is NO connectivity! lol
Looks like DDos hitting the west coast hard, http://map.norsecorp.com/
great, here we go again..wonder how many days it’l be this time
Norsecope is run by “hunches” by the way. Don’t put so much faith into that site.
Of course too much data moving around the net to monitor it all. We’ll have to get the official word from the network guys on the affected systems
Yeah I don’t play EQ2 much, maybe once every few weeks, and of course the one day this month I decide to login, this craziness happens lol
I’m pretty sure it’s not their fault, though, especially if it is a DDOS attack.
If this is DDoS .. Previously …
Anonymous Claims Responsibility For Turkey Cyberattacks
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/anonymous-behind-turkey-cyberattakcs/
December 27, 2015
“hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for the series of cyberattacks in Turkey that have taken some 400,000 websites offline … two-week long attack is considered the most intense in Turkish history”
Turkey’s response was to terminate outside connections. Well …
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-turkey-reeling-under-cyber-attack-government-banks-sites-paralysed-1534984
“as many as 50,000 computers in Turkey had inadvertently contributed to the ongoing DDoS attacks”
A bad case of ‘digital ricochet’ (youtube.com/watch?v=p24coa9KdOk)?
Off for pizza.
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It’s happening again…..
well its almost 10am central time for me and here we go again with crashes, uber lag etc.
https://twitter.com/TheProxseas This guy posted he took them down again, but has now deleted that post.