ESO under DDOS attack or whats happening!?!

Fettkeewl · October 2016

I cannot reach the website from my pc in my home network. Atm I am connected via phone tether. Cannot login to the game.
Anyone else experiencing issues?

Fettkeewl · October 2016

Id like to add that everything was working fine 1,5h ago. I have contacted my ISP and there is no issues at their end.
I can run a tracert when tethered thru phone but not from home network.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
(c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. Med ensamrätt.

C:\Users\****>tracert forums.elderscrollsonline.com

Tracing route to vip.cl521.vanilladev.com [104.239.214.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.43.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 1853 ms 229 ms 288 ms lim-vpe-3.tengigabiteth2-1.tele2.net [213.101.218.133]
4 37 ms 106 ms 48 ms lim-fgw-1.ae0-unit17.tele2.net [130.244.39.45]
5 32 ms 34 ms 104 ms lim-vpe-3.bundle-ether3s16.tele2.net [130.244.39.114]
6 101 ms 95 ms 78 ms lim-vpe-4.bundle-ether1.tele2.net [130.244.38.195]
7 80 ms 82 ms 74 ms sdn-core-2.bundle-ether2.tele2.net [130.244.38.196]
8 93 ms 114 ms 90 ms avk-core-1.hundredgige0-4-0-0.tele2.net [130.244.39.162]
9 45 ms 99 ms 46 ms avk6-peer-1.ae0-unit0.tele2.net [130.244.64.71]
10 59 ms 59 ms 60 ms s-b1-link.telia.net [213.248.101.121]
11 62 ms 61 ms 65 ms s-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.137.158]
12 1271 ms 62 ms 64 ms kbn-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.120.54]
13 151 ms 130 ms 135 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.249.21]
14 153 ms 153 ms 165 ms chi-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.140.69]
15 154 ms 173 ms 170 ms rackspace-ic-134354-chi-b21.c.telia.net [80.239.160.50]
16 1196 ms 198 ms 151 ms 10.25.0.69
17 1149 ms 157 ms 233 ms dcpe1-coreb.ord1.rackspace.net [50.56.6.163]
18 191 ms 158 ms 172 ms coreb-core6.ord1.rackspace.net [50.56.6.135]
19 164 ms 159 ms 153 ms core6-aggr1101a-2.ord1.rackspace.net [23.253.15.177]
20 169 ms 162 ms 152 ms 104.239.214.10

Trace complete.

Fettkeewl · October 2016

Tracert from laptop connected to home network

"Unable to resolve target system name from forums.elderscrollsonline.com"

THEDKEXPERIENCE · October 2016

Good god PC gaming is confusing. I like console where the status is either working or not working.

Elsonso · October 2016

I know that Dyn, a DNS provider, was having a DDoS against their DNS service today. For me, that seems to be resolved, although my DNS cache might be covering up any further shenanigans.

That impacted my ability to access the forums and game today.

http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

Level 3 continues to show the DNS outage from this DNS attack.

[Deleted User] · October 2016

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CapuchinSeven · October 2016

Yup having trouble myself, thought it was a DNS error as I couldn't get into the game or onto the forums so I connected to a VPN and can get onto the forums now.

Something is up ZOS.

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Good god PC gaming is confusing. I like console where the status is either working or not working.

Technically speaking issues like this could effect a console version as well in some cases, you'd just be able to do less about it.

Cheerrymate · October 2016

I'm also experiencing similar problems. Just been able to connect to this website. Game keeps trying to connect then server down. XBox one U.K.

Fettkeewl · October 2016

Im using noip.com for DNS, just removed it from router settings. Hoping it will help.

I also bypassed my router connecting "live" to the internet, had the same issues.. so aint router

Cheerrymate · October 2016

As i post the game has finally let me in. Weird

JD2013 · October 2016

All my internet went screwy and just able to load these forums and other websites now.

It seems global? What the heck?

Fettkeewl · October 2016

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight? What's going on!? Seems like many more are affected.

psychotic13 · October 2016

Same here, can't log in on console and couldn't get on the forum for a while

Peekachu99 · October 2016

Same issue on PSN

AsteriaStarfall · October 2016

I've had it happen a few times today.

If you know how to do this then perform these steps. Edit your network connection and change the DNS servers to

Primary: 8.8.8.8

Secondary: 8.8.4.4

Both are Google DNS

Exit your client

Open a command prompt in elevated mode and type the following commands hitting the enter key at the end of each one.

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

ipconfig /flushdns

Relaunch client and check connection. This may not work for everyone, but should help some.

Hekaterin · October 2016

Haven't been able to access forums or log into the game for a while, but now forums seem to be working again finally.

Alucardo · October 2016

Haven't tried the game yet, but yeah the website has be timing out on me for the past hour or so.. well except now, of course, because I'm writing this

CapuchinSeven · October 2016

Mine started working again, was going to change to OpenDNS but seems no need now.

Snootking · October 2016

No luck for me on xbox eu.

JD2013 · October 2016

@ZOS_GinaBruno is there something going on?

altemriel · October 2016

some lame kids DDOS attacking ZOS servers????

It seems that everything is again ok now....

so lame....

Number_51 · October 2016

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/

olsborg · October 2016

DNS is unavailable. (was)

W0lf_z13 · October 2016

the forum is def having issues ( not sure about the game though due to being at work ). I have to continuously refresh the page cause it keeps giving a can't connect error

Acrolas · October 2016

I did get a momentary hiccup, but that may have just been me bringing a few new fawns to the Trans-Cyrodiil Underground Deer Trail.

I know I shouldn't meddle, but come on, you say no to that.

Lumbermill_Emperor · October 2016

guys just google and check
its DDOS issue

im able to login here only by TOR

https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime
or this
https://2ip.io/site-availability/

kylewwefan · October 2016

It all started when @Crown started a networking performance optimization thread. Coincidence?......maybe?

milkbox · October 2016

Number_51 wrote: »

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/

This guy actually gave the answer.

It is not ZOS. It is a big hunk of internet gone haywire.

LadyNalcarya · October 2016

Forum is barely working for me, and I can't log in (it shows error 200 and "Cant retrieve announcements" or just a blank space). Weird.

Kutsuu · October 2016

Nearly 1TB DDoS hitting Dyn all morning. Not just ZoS, but anyone using their services affected. I noticed this with Zendesk and Github, then decided to browse this forum while it was down and couldn't do that either. lol

Number_51 · October 2016

milkbox wrote: »

Number_51 wrote: »

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/

This guy actually gave the answer.

It is not ZOS. It is a big hunk of internet gone haywire.

Actually it looks like that one was resolved before the current state of affairs (that one affected me earlier this morning). What's going on now may be more related to this:

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835