I was hoping this would be a small attack, but it's much bigger and longer-lasting than I first thought.
What's Going On?
As it says in the Quick News, we are currently under a DDoS attack (
Distributed Denial of Service Attack) . I have already reported the attack to the host company the attack seems to have come from. I am also working with Steadfast to put up an ACL on the edge routers, or anything else that can mitigate this attack.
Who Did This?
A Russian messaged me on IRC saying he is part of a group that takes down private servers. They demanded $5000 a week for the attack to stop. Of course, I'm not going to pay any extortionist a penny. I am sure this will get reported to the authorities once the host of these attacks fixes the problem and checks the logs.
Update September 16, 2009:
We truly apologize for the long downtime. Steadfast was unwilling to help us in any way after the first night, Sep. 9th at 1:30 AM, when they tried to filter the attack and failed. I don't know if they actually tried or lied to me, but we were basically null routed (i.e. internet disabled) for the next 6 days. That's why the website and servers were all offline.
There are status updates on our Twitter at
http://twitter.com/AzureGaming.
After a lot of arguing and pleading I finally left Steadfast and rented some servers at SoftLayer in Washington D.C. I would of moved our colocated servers somewhere, but there weren't really any good options for DDoS-protected datacenters that did colocation. We almost went to Gigenet but that eventually fell through as well.
Once again, we apologize for the long downtime. We now have the website back online (as you can see) and will bring the L2 servers back up soon.
Update September 18, 2009:
We are back online and have been able to ignore the DDoS attacks we had today without any downtime. Hopefully they will realize I won't pay them anything and that they are wasting their time attacking us.
The website is up, as are the forums, and we are installing L2 and copying over the databases right now. Hopefully we can have Celes up in the next few hours. I'll update you once we are closer to being online.
L2 Back Online
Lineage II is back online. For the time being only Celes is online. We will investigate whether or not we have the resources leftover to put up Aerith and/or Nanaki. We apologize to Aerith and Nanaki players, but we do not have the monthly donations to justify purchasing dedicated servers from SoftLayer just for Aerith and Nanaki at this time.
WoW/FPS Status
Our WoW and FPS servers will be talked about as staff. We will probably put WoW on a VPS since it is still beta, and we will have to discuss what to do with the FPS servers. We will post an update regarding that in the near future.
