Steam is Down, Possibly under DDoS Attack

jstange · Post by **jstange** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:14 pm

Steam seems to be down currently. The first news appearing speak of a possible DDoS attack against Steam by a group called Phantom Squad. If it is true and they don't stop attacking soon, it may take quite long for steam to be back online as there is virtually no simple solution to it (DDoS).

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:21 pm

It seems likely that is the case. There are technical remediations that can be applied but that takes time. They appear to be doing it for "fun" and "because they can".

If ever caught I would suggest a 1 way ticket to "The Bay" or a Super-Max facility in the USA and spend the next 20 years finding out what "fun" is. The RICO legislation in the USA is sufficient for this before the "economic terrorism" angle comes into it.

My idea of fun is an afternoon on train simulator or Civilisation V since I have leave from work. What the hell gives these idiots the right to this and affect other people's fun?

749006 · Post by **749006** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:27 pm

Easilyconfused wrote:My idea of fun is an afternoon on train simulator or Civilisation V since I have leave from work.

Well I decided to run something - the Steam client did not connect and I started in Offline mode.
After that I just played the scenario as normal

Peter

jstange · Post by **jstange** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:37 pm

Yes, TS works normally in Steam Offline mode.

I just lost the background I fixed yesterday - seems that now every start of the sim deletes the background.jpg file. Perhaps it could be due to the offline mode...?

Juanillo99 · Post by **Juanillo99** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:43 pm

jstange wrote:I just lost the background I fixed yesterday - seems that now every start of the sim deletes the background.jpg file. Perhaps it could be due to the offline mode...?

The background image is configured by DTG via Internet. In offline mode there is no internet connection, therefore you do not see the background image.

749006 · Post by **749006** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:45 pm

Juanillo99 wrote:
jstange wrote:I just lost the background I fixed yesterday - seems that now every start of the sim deletes the background.jpg file. Perhaps it could be due to the offline mode...?
The background image is configured by DTG via Internet. In offline mode there is no internet connection, therefore you do not see the background image.

So why is there no background image when online?

Juanillo99 · Post by **Juanillo99** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:55 pm

749006 wrote:
Juanillo99 wrote:
jstange wrote:I just lost the background I fixed yesterday - seems that now every start of the sim deletes the background.jpg file. Perhaps it could be due to the offline mode...?
The background image is configured by DTG via Internet. In offline mode there is no internet connection, therefore you do not see the background image.
So why is there no background image when online?

Maybe because of some inexplicable misconfiguration, who knows.

749006 · Post by **749006** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:01 pm

And Steam seems to be back up again

Peter

black8 · Post by **black8** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:35 pm

Yeah it works again!

jstange · Post by **jstange** » Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:38 pm

Yep, I can log in again.

smarty2 · Post by **smarty2** » Sat Dec 24, 2016 11:21 am

Old pres of Russia flexing the muscles again?

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