What can I do against a DDOS attack?

[AILTON]

In the last few games I got ddosed very often, How can I stop that? Mostly it led to a lose and it sucks.

[ॐૐ]

Oh you just hit the wall. You know the one that divides physical existance from ethereal one when time loses significance yada, yada.

Only time I've had to deal with massive DDoS is with DOTA2, it's probably built in harassment as a feature.

[Duchess Minty]

Originally posted by twol:

it's probably built in harassment as a feature.

you weren't supposed to know the truth

[ॐૐ]

Originally posted by Lady Mint:

Originally posted by twol:

it's probably built in harassment as a feature.

you weren't supposed to know the truth

Well truth is just a point of view. I feel blessed I'm lenient with others not always shared opinnions.

[Azza ☠]

You might find it's just packet lost from other players.

- In game, check your ping (lower is better), by typing: -ping

- Check if the other players are from countries miles away. If so, try to keep distance from them while farming at least, such as swapping lanes.

- If you are wireless, consider wired (ethernet cable CAT 5e or 6), as that will help greatly with packet lost.

- If there's quite a bit of mic chat or open mics, try muting the player's voice and ask them to type instead. Voice chat can also cause some lag outs.

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If it was a DDOS attack...

Log into your Router admin and check it's logs.

You might find [DoS attack: ACK Scan] or similar noted there, depending on your router model. It should give you a source IP address, which in that case you can file a report against. Do a WhoIS IP Address lookup on those IP Addresses, if unknown server or local IP, report them to:

https://www.abuseipdb.com/

If serious, report them to (note the Internet Crime Complaint Center I3C, works with CIA and FBI to do takedowns or legal court cases):

https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Note: A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack requires multiple Servers/PCs as a BotNET to send packets to the victim target. In this case, there will be many IP Addresses, you send the entire router log of that abuse. If it's just a single IP Address, then it's a DoS attack.

[Bobeus]

I doubt that anyone is seriously DDoSing you. Unless you are the target of a low or high orbit ion cannon...

[AILTON]

Okay, thank you guys for the fast replies, I sincerely think it wasnt a ddos attack then. Thank you very much for the description azza!

[BruT]

there is only one thing u can do against ddos and its to change your ip

[Joon]

I just wonder why someone would waste his efforts to target a single DotA player with ddos attacks in first place.

The smart evils use zombie networks, which means they have to replace them after getting reported. It's bothersome to organize ddos because you need quiet a lot of computers.

There is a reason why ddos attacks became extremly popular. The most wanted targets are service provicers because they pay dearly for traffic.

In worst case these attacks are still considered legitimate traffic and you just pay a lot of money for unnecessary traffic use or they blow up your max cap and your service shutdown. Your customers wont like it if they visit your website and just find out it's offline or lagging.

[Akryllax]

Its a game error thing. After last update any spell casting generates slipt packages and breaks the connection (25-100% packet loss). Happened me a few times today.

[ॐૐ]

You should ask yourself why you would want to ruin your own experience of DOTA2.

[Op z'n gemak Dough]

I dont think players can find your ip through steam (i dont know though, so maybe they can).
What people often do however is find your name in skype (if it matches ur steamname) and attack from there.

Make your skypename smtin else then ur steamname, worked against that stuff in LOL atleast.

[ॐૐ]

Originally posted by Maleko:

Originally posted by twol:

You should ask yourself why you would want to ruin your own experience of DOTA2.

You should ask yourself that question. You have over 12,000 hours in-game and you're one of the most toxic players. Look at your Dotabuff:

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/27176971/

You change your name a lot, but that's you. 10 month old data, but still, how do you get 182 MMR and have 3,735 matches? Only by throwing games. I bet you recently got a 6 month ban, and that's why your post history is only 8 pages long. You can't troll in-game anymore so you came to the community forums to troll. In fact, you literally admit that in one of your earlier comments.

And you're not from Sweden like your Steam profile says, you're Russian. Over 700 of your matches were on the Russian server. You went to European servers to troll and throw games. People like you are the reason why the community hates Russians.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

If I have indeed played that many hours with toxicity I guess it can't be toxic at all. It's more likely that you fill the spot of the toxic image which is projected upon me. But that makes sense. So you took the time and went through my post history, any other history? Maybe a few cookies? You know, too much of that teenage behaviour can land you restraining orders.

Trolls, I've managed to attract the ire of some of these creatures and each with their own idea about the concept. From what I've learned, trolls begin bonding with pretty harmless pranks which in turn escalates behaviour and triggering of eachother and higher and higher tolerance to pranks which turns into degrees of socially problematic behaviours with acts of sadism being the least noteworthy.

Would you feel like we actually have anything in common if I picked russia instead of my native sweden as a nation so you can feel we have something in common, something to amplify this... dellusional connection you seem to think we have. I don't care much for nations.

Shame? I don't think so, only the middle, I like ham.

[KingXRay]

stop download POpcoRN?

[Joon]

Originally posted by Maleko:

Originally posted by twol:

<delusional rant>

Sorry troll, I mean twol, TL;DR

~13,000 hours in-game
182 Solo MMR
131 abandons

Uninstall Dota and get some help with your behavioral issues.

lol nice discovery

Now it makes sense.

[Tornado.KiD]

Yesterday, played a match, and suddenly both teams had massive lags, couldn't move or do anything for like 15 seconds. That was super wierd, never happen before. Tought my video card was dying :D
Not sure if it was a ddos attack.