[Requesting Lock] I'm starting to get really damn pissed off now....

[Robby_Wilson]

There must be at very least someone who will put the little kids in their place .
*sigh*
duffman, you're right, he's not worth the hussle. I'd need a therapist degree for this individual.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH I laugh at your stupid attempts to make me seem like the bad guy, You're the bad guy here buddy, and the child. Hacking a server and making it crash just because you didn't get what you wanted? You wanted help from an admin, there was only 2 admins with 80+ players buddy. Stop trying to make me seem like kid here. You tell us to grow up because its a video game, yet, whose the one hacking it because the little baby didn't get what he wanted? Hmm... oh right, YOU.

[Marcel]

For reference:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995196.aspx

and

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configuring-Forefront-TMG-HTTP-Filter.html

[Frank_Hawk]

As for software, would Microsoft ForeFront do the trick ? Could have some old license of it somehwere.
The Data Center is where the servers are hosted. This is to guarantee 24/7 availability of the network, a constant data speed and a technician near when something crashes.

You'll have to expand to a degree for the technically illiterate! 

Is the Data Center a plug-in that is installed on the server? What are it's inputs (what feeds into it), outputs (what feeds out of it) and purpose (what is it responsible for)

Is it a external 3rd party software / hardware?

[Hamza.]

Why these hackers come and ruin other's gameplay while they can't play their own..

[TiMoN]

Why these hackers come and ruin other's gameplay while they can't play their own..

because they got no life, they think they are going to ruin our lives by doing so

[Zaila]

Just one thing i want to point out about this "hacker".

A person that is able to launch a DoS / DDoS attack against a specific IP is not a hacker. Infact, it's quite easy to find the tools to do it, if you know where to look.

[Hamza.]

because they got no life, they think they are going to ruin our lives by doing so

That is really lame..

[zater112]

He is failing at DDOS, keeps it up for about 10 seconds.

And you are failing to keep the server up. :redface:

[Devin]

And you are failing to keep the server up. :redface:

Sure if that's what you think, please do tell how you would keep the server up then?

[Lincoln.]

You have loads of those "services" which i still do not entirely trust. Here's one: http://ddosdefend.com/ddos-protection.html

They charge 200$ monthly for their services.

That's around 170 euros, well... If some people who can afford to donate (You can count on me) are interested in defending the server from those little lifeless kids, we could donate 20-30 euros per month, I believe there are at least five persons who can donate some amount of money per month = We have the solution for the ddos attacks.

I can donate 50 euros maximally (I can more but my parents probably won't allow me since they don't know to who I am donating, who are the owners of the server and stuff) - 120 euros more, divided by 10 - 12 euros by 12 people, which is not a lot.

Tell me what do you think.

[Marcel]

That's around 170 euros, well... If some people who can afford to donate (You can count on me) are interested in defending the server from those little lifeless kids, we could donate 20-30 euros per month, I believe there are at least five persons who can donate some amount of money per month = We have the solution for the ddos attacks.

I can donate 50 euros maximally (I can more but my parents probably won't allow me since they don't know to who I am donating, who are the owners of the server and stuff) - 120 euros more, divided by 10 - 12 euros by 12 people, which is not a lot.

Tell me what do you think.

I believe that can be done. Tonight i sent EUR 50 via paypal.

EDIT: Whoohoo 100th post

[Morphine]

What OS are the Argonath servers running on? If it's Linux, there's a great alternative solution to preventing irrational amounts of packets being sent to the server, called ServerArk.

[Devin]

Argonath is running on Windows.

[Jack White]

My approach is to send the police knocking on their doors.

Explain how you would send police to someone sitting behind a botnet and a few proxies. Lets say 500 bots, all different IPs and countries. Do you think the local police would first track down those IPs, then from one computer to the proxy/VPN, then contact the owner of the proxy/vpn, then finally reach the IP of the guy doing it, before proceeding to the country he lives in and once again, contact his ISP, to bust a 15 year old kid DDoSing a gaming community? Wont happen.

[Dolfagr]

The police would not give a shit unless something of profit would be hacked / DDos'd like a business company. Maybe their ISP will block them but that's all that's going to happen really.

As for those who choose to hack or DDos, they are just thinking they are having fun and excitement ruining other's gameplay as if it would be their real life.