SRL Archive - News and General

Rumors are Runescape suffered a major attack against hackers and all of runescape is dead right now.

There are currently 0 people playing!

Probably just updates.

iam laughing if it was a DDoS. cause then theres a new runescape private server with summoning :p

but indeed spork. probebly just a update.

i heard it was a bug glitch update??

[offtopic]just a question but does anyone ACTUALLY know how to DDOS? cos lots of people say they can but i was wondering if anyone actually would[/offtopic]

~Spaz

some prolly can, but it will land you in prison

I can't DDoS. hobbit is doing it for a sch**l project (BBQ pit - ask evil chicken):p

Whats DDoS. giving the server a overload. Visit the page with a lot of computers. the server can't handle it. and will crash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

but in theorie every one could DDoS a server.

Well, It's pretty easy to dos. I can take down a few websites just by opening a s**t load of sockets and connecting to it a few thousands times repetitively, but taking down rs servers would take a lot of computers. Maybe controlled by a botnet. You'd need quite a bit of bandwidth, and some fast internet connections.

so basically a DDOs is connecting thousands of times in a short time period and overloading the server??
[srry for taking this offtopic a bit]

~Spaz

Actually it looks like they were just updating the grand exchange and summoning rather than someone attacking their server

RS is still slow and not even opening the worlds…

I had to open 3 times runescape until it worked, all the other times it crashed while communicating with the update server (Don't know if this has to do with a DoS attack)

yeah they siad in homepage they updating Grand Exchange blah blah blah

yea they keep taking the servers down lately and its throwing off my scripting :(

I thought it was just me. I kept on trying to access worlds and it came up with a 404 error. Was that the error you were getting?

RS are doing little and simple updates quiete ofthen these days.
they're either improving the game or maybe putting tras in to catch autoers…

hackers can't really take down rs servers cause of the 2k max player limits.
and yes, proably a micro update(unnoticable or unannounced), or a real update.

but most web sites, like mine and have infinate amounts of page and would crash my server, but my hosters would probably sue the hackers big time..

Weird, I can't access other parts of the page. Is it just me or…?

Look on RS home page…

"There are currently 1 people playing!"

There are no 0 people playing.

that 1 was my autoer… :p lol

noes… lol i was in barb assault =/

WTF is up with Runescape these days..?!!?

Its Back

Edit: i bet if zezima was on he would be like… ITS TEH END OF TEH WORLD!

this has happedn many times before just a minor server crash, they wil exsplain on forums later when ever this happend the disable to forums cause there will be 1000s of people making thread " o noes runescape anit working". it has happend lots before.

picy

Ah I see.
I never go on the forums so I dont see that stuff they post. Oh well… the forums are pretty stupid anyways.

Oh wow interesting I bet it was just an update. How do you find out all this stuff anyway?