Quote (garbo @ May 29 2011 10:28am)
is hon down again?
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Since Tuesday we have spent 100+ hours working on the stability of the HoN service due to vulnerabilities to DDoS. We have made major headway in that regard and are capable of mitigating many more scenarios than previously. The attacks that these criminals continue to aim at HoN are heavily mitigated, even though our service is still not 100% operational.
This morning, while our system was successfully mitigating existing attacks, another attack was aimed at us. This attack is slowing servers capability to authorize clients. Due to this, match making is very spotty and we have chosen to disable it. We are currently attempting to mitigate this attack and close this vulnerability in our system.
I understand that many of you are frustrated with this situation and want to point your anger at S2. It is most definitely our responsibility to create systems to prevent these kinds of attacks. However, the ferocity and length of these CRIMINAL activities is more than we have ever planned for. HoN ran smoothly and near flawlessly for a year of retail. We pride ourselves on our high standards of operation and this is very painful for us to endure. We will work to resolve this issue once and bring HoN back to its peak operating performance.