Is it me or is gamesurge dead?

[Lightning Blue]

Been trying to connect all day to various servers with no luck!

[Settler]

Been trying to connect all day to various servers with no luck!

[snapback]47359[/snapback]

im having problems too.. cant connect to anything! java applets dont work either.

[SheenaYanai]

its almost dead... i dont know how long ive tried to connect..it was a pain... there was very much splitting too....  and i got disconnected all the time again..

[Malevolent]

Two threads at once!

It might be the end... :help:

[Black Mage]

might want to check these two topics

[devicenull]

I suggest moving to freenode, for the time being.  I'll be there, irc.freenode.net channel #lunixmonster

[That Annoying Kid]

gamesurge works for me on java right now

[Settler]

yep workin fine for me now too

[Black Mage]

bump for "we're on irc://irc.zirc.org/lm" because gamesurge is dead again

[SwiftSpear]

burstfire.uk.eu seems to have taken the least of the shelling out of all the gamesurge servers.  Other then that it's pretty much getting blasted to high hell.

[Black Mage]

[00:32] *** Connecting to "burstfire.uk.eu.GameSurge.net:6667" (Attempt 26 of 110)
[00:32] *** Resolving host name
[00:32] *** Connecting to 195.68.206.250:6667
[00:32] *** Socket Error (10060: Attempt to connect timed out without establishing a connection)
[00:32] *** Unable to connect to IRC server
[00:32] *** Disconnected
[00:32] *** Connect attempt 26 of 110 failed, delaying retry for 300 seconds (Click "Disconnect" to cancel)

[SwiftSpear]

[00:32] *** Connecting to "burstfire.uk.eu.GameSurge.net:6667" (Attempt 26 of 110)
[00:32] *** Resolving host name
[00:32] *** Connecting to 195.68.206.250:6667
[00:32] *** Socket Error (10060: Attempt to connect timed out without establishing a connection)
[00:32] *** Unable to connect to IRC server
[00:32] *** Disconnected
[00:32] *** Connect attempt 26 of 110 failed, delaying retry for 300 seconds (Click "Disconnect" to cancel)

[snapback]49676[/snapback]

I got 110+ retry's on kanzi, and the majority of the other servers I tryed just didn't work period.  burstfire hasn't been down for more then 20 mins all day.

[EvilLinkz]

I've been on Burstfire the past week and it's stayed up better than my normal Clanshells.DE. I've even still connected to the American servers during the NetSplits.

[CryForMe]

they keep getting hit by ddos attacks because theyre not smart enough to secure their network. this happens about once every two weeks with gamesurge. back when it was gamesnet, they actually had their act together and netsplits were relatively rare, not like this garbage we have now.

[devicenull]

You obviously don't understand a DDoS attack.  It has nothing to do with the security of the network.  It involves hundreds or thousands of connections being opened to gamesurge each second.. it overloads the ircd

[CryForMe]

yes, and usually theyre conducted by a single user. i've been on plenty of different IRC networks for long periods of time and none of them seemed to have this much trouble with it. why is it that gamesurge is the only network that gets hit so frequently?

[A Boojum Snark]

One of the biggest and most popular, duh.

Same reason the majority of virii target windows computers.

[devicenull]

yes, and usually theyre conducted by a single user. i've been on plenty of different IRC networks for long periods of time and none of them seemed to have this much trouble with it. why is it that gamesurge is the only network that gets hit so frequently?

[snapback]49715[/snapback]

Well, you are right in the sense that they are usually run by one user.. but they use many computers that have some type of trojan on them, so the attacks come from a bunch of different IP addresses

[Malevolent]

All I know is that I can't connect, so I don't bother anymore.

[Tooky]

Try using Olympus, works 90% of the time for me