Word from Gamespy
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“Earlier in April, another customer of the ISP hosting GameSpy’s middleware backend services such as the ones used by Relic’s Warhammer 40,000 RTS franchise was under several rounds of denial of service attacks spread over about 10 days. While combatting this attack, over this period, some parts of the world had intermittent connectivity to the GameSpy backend. As of 4/8/07, a routing change was made to resolve the problem until more permanent solutions can be implemented.
GameSpy was never directly under any DDOS attack, and GameSpy backend was never out of comission, although some connectivity was for some users. We consider this an unacceptable level of service for both our users and by our ISP and this whole event lead to a series of discussions an a senior executive level both at GameSpy/IGN Entertainment’s end and Intelenet, our ISP partner in this, about our longer term options.
Any affected user is welcome to contact GameSpy’s Developer Support Manager directly at jschuur@gamespy.com if they continue to experience connectivity problems. Please include ping and traceroute (tracert in
Windows) information for master.gamespy.com along with a description of the in-game error and where it occurs.”