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Keep up the good work! And thank you for fighting on behalf of us all in the community!

We are going nowhere. Slava Octowow!

Maybe recruit some people from the community to help? I'm sure there are many people who play who have extensive knowledge and might help.

Ineedahero wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 7:50 am Maybe recruit some people from the community to help? I'm sure there are many people who play who have extensive knowledge and might help.

If anyone has access to an L4 scrubbing system they would be willing to let us use, we would be happy to pay for it. Unfortunately I don't think knowledge is our barrier at the moment

But of course we are always open to suggestions or improvements.

Thank you for the hard work and the transparency.
This project is amazing and I hope it lives on !!

Thank you for the update, this has to be a gigantic burden for you all, and I sincerely appreciate your diligence.

Hey,

do you have any information on the scale of the attack—in terms of throughput (bps/Gbps), packet rate (pps/Mpps), and the number of new connections per second (cps)?

Ty for your work

Ty for the update. I can't bring myself to play much while this is going on. But that said i got no plans to jump to another Wow server.

For me it's Octowow or nothing as far as Wow goes, should the project fail, well i will just play other games for the next few years. Not willing to restart my Wow progression yet again, not in any kind of near future. And i truly think Octowow is a quality server as far as private servers goes.

I hope a solution can be found. I agree that if it's solved, then Octowow has the potential to last for many years to come.

Keep up the good work.

Awesome, thx for the info.

Something of this scale and magnitude should be applauded at the very least; respecting anonymity and running this in the way you guys are, especially being something that has never been seen before, deserves a standing ovation!
Really great to see

Best of luck to you on this issue.

Hey, another sw engineer here few out of the box suggestions, I bet they abuse syn packets if they target auth server. Maybe a simple throtling like:
Limit the number of connection attempts (SYNs) per IP per minute. Legitimate players only connect once or few times during a login attempt. If they don't abuse SYN packets you can also try setting firewall policy to drop ACK, FIN, RST packets if they dont belong to active tcp session (there must have been syn to establish legitimate connection).

But yeah you need an access to firewall, or possibility to deploy yours if you have the means, you can always portforward to localports over which you could hopefully setup such policies.

Oh, Captain! My Captain!!