Option A- you shut the store for the day. If you owned a shop and I wanted to fuck you over I could send 500 people to line up outside the store, spend time inside, never buy anything, occupy all your staff, etc. Protection is therefore inherently more expensive than attacking which is why it isn't at all an easy or simple thing to prevent. Protection needs to match the bandwidth sent AND analyse each packet. Sitting in the middle and filtering out legit traffic without causing any lag to legit users in the process is an absolutely massive task and becomes harder and harder the bigger the attack is. A small percentage are legit, others aren't. They just look like tonnes of simultaneous login server requests, etc.įrom Jagex's end it looks like 10000 connections are communicating with the server at once. The reason the attack is impossible to stop is the attacks total hundreds or thousands of different connections all at a few megabits each. It's only DDoS when it's a DoS being sent en-masse by many different connections at once. This one will earn you a ban.ĭDoS = distributed denial of service. For more information about account bans, click here. Feel like sharing? Please censor names wherever possible. Report abuse in game and contact Jagex for serious issues. This is not the place to accuse players of wrongdoing. No "Advice Animals" or other image macros. The body of your submission must be related to Old School RuneScape.
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