OctoWow - Forums

Can we get information on when pvp gear will be available and the requirements for them (honor / rank?)?

At the moment we are completely in the dark :/

Anyone who has been following this saga can clearly see the effort the team has put in.

It's been frustrating at times, but the uptime is clearly improving, and the team has a path to not only mitigate the attacks, but avoid shutdown by other means.

DDOS attacks are not trivial to mitigate ...

Not a whole lot more information for everyone.

We are not yet on our new hardware. We have continued our work to try to protect from the DDoS best we can with what we have access to. Expect an update early next week with a specific time.

Might wanna look into the current surge of people ...

Very likely DNS -

Setup a hosts file locally (on linux /etc/hosts - on windows... google it idk)

185.165.170.59 normal.octowow.st

Thanks for the update. Appreciate the effort being put in to resolve this and along with the frustration of having the resolution be in the hands of a service provider moving at their own pace

For those running linux who are able to login to pvp/hc but not pve

add the IP to your /etc/hosts file

185.165.170.59 normal.octowow.st

If it fixes the problem, the issue is DNS not the server

edit: remember it's there so if the IP changes again you remember to clear it

"the attacker forge Source Address 185.165.170.59 and send such packets to X random machines around the world. The machine which receive such packet sees it as it was sent from 185.165.170.59:SourcePort so it replies exactly there. Which results with DDoS on Server (with SPT 8091) and FlokiNet ...

Thanks for the update! Appreciate the teams persistence <3