niruchi Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Hi....I just woke up and check the internet today, and try to log in to elder scrolls forum ... but nothings up its only "could not locate remote server" tag, so is it down? I understand some of the member of that forum is member of this forum.....so what's going on? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niruchi Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 c'mon guys... someone must know what happend?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 It's really down. But I don't think anyone knows what's happening. I suspect an attack of some nature (DDoS most likely). I have submitted a news entry to the main site so that anyone with information can tell us what's going on. EDIT: Oh, and it's not just the forums. It's EVERYTHING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niruchi Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 what do u mean everything?....the entire server?? damn, that guy must be good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I belive this is major blackout on all the bethesda softworks controlled servers, everything is out. I have tried to enter most of their sites and it has proved useless, my conclusion is therefor a massive shutdown of some sort, and for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Povuholo Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) occurs when multiple compromised systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system usually a web server(s). These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods. That's from the wiki. I don't completely understand it yet. Is it just an error or something occuring when there are so many people using the bandwidth (official forum search engine, for example. Except for that that one can only be used once a minute), or is it done on purpose with virusses or something? Tessource had this a while ago too... Wasn't that bad AFAIK... EDIT: By the way it works now.. It didn't 2 minutes ago... I guess it's switching on and off ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niruchi Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 QUOTEA distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) occurs when multiple compromised systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system usually a web server(s). These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods. from what I understand about this is the bandwith on the server are overflooded by multiple user at the same time...so its malfunction. well...I have a theory. maybe its is hackers attack on the server...but why would anyone do something like that to a gaming community? what for?....another theory, yesterday there's a rumor about the famous mod OOO 1.3 coming out this weekend....maybe that it...:D Ah!....the elder scrolls forum is on now....let see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 A DDoS IS almost ALWAYS MALICIOUS. It's when usually an individual or group of hackers compromise multiple (hundreds, sometimes thousands) of PCs by sneaking viri in. They then use these computers to secretly flood the target server with thousands of page requests, data requests, pings, etc. The user usually doesn't know that their PC is doing this, since it is usually performed as a background process. Anywho, looks like they're back up again, so dunno if it was a DDoS or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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