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Yup, I got screwed over big time. I had to complete a Heroic Siva Strike with just one other player and we are both only light level 350.

The third player got kicked off and we couldn't figure out why the third player wasn't being replaced.

It took us 5 attempts and a hell of a lot of skill to get it done and even then, my 3 of coin didn't drop an exotic.



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You sent this thread out to die. How do you compete with VR porn and NX -_-



In case you were wondering how this affected so many services at once, it seems to be because they targeted a server translating URLs to IP addresses. Behind all those fancy browsers everything uses IP addresses, which are practically formed of a bunch of random characters so they're not really very user-friendly. When you head to the URL in your browser, the browser asks a DNS server what IP address corresponds to the URL, and then heads to that IP address. In this case, the DNS server was the target of the attack and thus you couldn't get the IP address of any service from that DNS server. Technically this means that none of the services were down, you just couldn't find their addresses.

I recently read of a report that someone's been trying to figure out how to take down the whole internet recently. They've been testing different important points and how well defended they are. This, it seems to me, is simply continuation to that, and worryingly enough, it seems pretty easy to take down even pretty big portions of the internet. In a few years, an attacker with enough resources could probably take down the whole internet for a good while, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to do it even now. Not a scary thought at all, eh?



Zkuq said:
In case you were wondering how this affected so many services at once, it seems to be because they targeted a server translating URLs to IP addresses. Behind all those fancy browsers everything uses IP addresses, which are practically formed of a bunch of random characters so they're not really very user-friendly. When you head to the URL in your browser, the browser asks a DNS server what IP address corresponds to the URL, and then heads to that IP address. In this case, the DNS server was the target of the attack and thus you couldn't get the IP address of any service from that DNS server. Technically this means that none of the services were down, you just couldn't find their addresses.

I recently read of a report that someone's been trying to figure out how to take down the whole internet recently. They've been testing different important points and how well defended they are. This, it seems to me, is simply continuation to that, and worryingly enough, it seems pretty easy to take down even pretty big portions of the internet. In a few years, an attacker with enough resources could probably take down the whole internet for a good while, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to do it even now. Not a scary thought at all, eh?

Yup, I heard the code that done the attack was released last week. 

 

PSN still having issues. I can sometimes see friends, but can't interact with them. 

 

The internet has always been very fragile. A world built on code hosted on machines. Can you imagine if someone took down Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat for a few days?



I've been having issues accessing multiple sites today.



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FIT_Gamer said:
I've been having issues accessing multiple sites today.

N4G is down. I like N4G. Still peed I can't play strikes on destiny. Has XBL been affected by this? 



I guess thats why my VPN service kept on goofing with DNS



                  

PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850

Looks like my PSN is back up. I can see friends again and they seem to be playing stuff online.



Fei-Hung said:
Looks like my PSN is back up. I can see friends again and they seem to be playing stuff online.

I tried playing PS4 about 2 hours ago. I could see my friends list, but couldn't play online. 



could be a sort of marketing from UBISOFT for watch dogs 2 ? XD