are servers down today april 19th?

game wont let me log on and everything works on my pc

and there was no scedualed maitenence for today it was gonna be on the 20th so does anyone no whats going on?

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news4440.shtml

Apparently there've been DDoS attacks on POL, making it a pain for people to log in. A kitty posted this on another message board:


Whatis.com

On the Internet, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. The flood of incoming messages to the target system essentially forces it to shut down, thereby denying service to the system to legitimate users.

A hacker (or, if you prefer, cracker) begins a DDoS attack by exploiting a vulnerability in one computer system and making it the DDoS "master." It is from the master system that the intruder identifies and communicates with other systems that can be compromised. The intruder loads cracking tools available on the Internet on multiple -- sometimes thousands of -- compromised systems. With a single command, the intruder instructs the controlled machines to launch one of many flood attacks against a specified target. The inundation of packets to the target causes a denial of service.

While the press tends to focus on the target of DDoS attacks as the victim, in reality there are many victims in a DDoS attack -- the final target and as well the systems controlled by the intruder.

Also last night people were experiencing problems with the search and AH functions, but I'm not sure if these issues are related.. Today's maintenance could have been a fix of some sort.

Looks like POL's back up now though~

i just got terminated >< whatever that means and i was in a good team >< i made it with another guy 50/50

and now i cant log in again and when i tryed it said something about update failed

someone in my ls said something about a mistake in there codes for the update could this be true?

i just good terminated >< whatever that means and i was in a good team >< i made it with another guy 50/50

and now i cant log in again and when i tryed it said something about update failed

someone in my ls said something about a mistake in there codes for the update could this be true?

Doubtful... as far as I know it's the same ddos attacks we've been hearing about.

Wonder when Typo will get to return to his volcano.. >.>

lol wanting to make some gil eh

where is that volcano located? and for what level to go there?

/cry >< i had just hit level 32 monk when i d/c and havent got a buffer be hard to get a team now

wow when i logged back on my former team was still there >>(was only one who d/c)
>< team was full and no invites for like a half hour
but lucky me >> the pld tank had to leave so they re invited me and i got to tank as a level 32 monk till level 33 and then waited for everyone in team to hit 32 before we broke up and left >> it was a great team

>< will miss them all

great news wasnt booted after that time

and i hope pol can get back up to 100% asap

Hehe, yeah for now the servers are behaving. X3 Gogo with MNK~! Hope you're enjoying it as much as Typo!

And for Ifrit's Cauldron, it's located in Yhoator Jungle, and quite accessible for mining if you happen to have your own means of sneak and invis. I won't go into any detail, but will say that whm and rdm are great choices for this, and as long as you have both sneak and invis, you're good to go.

Mining there does get easier with experience, but it certainly isn't for everyone. Lotsa risk taking + death + deleveling involved. :3

yes i like monk alot i leveled war to 30 then needed to level monk sub up cause it was only 18-20 i forget now and i loved it so i am makeing it my main job for now anyway...


sounds dangerous >< ill wait till i get way better

updates seem to take forever lol ><

right now i am trying to make a list of all my thoughts so i can make a post hope some people will help clear some things out concerning some in game items affects my equipment etc..

thx for the time u take to talk ^^