hoi4 mp lobbies getting ddos

[cac579]

Today hoi4 mp is dead because someone is ddosing all the lobbies.

 

[daman123]

Too bad they don't care!

 

[unsdeagel]

I'm just waiting for a scandal involving a paradox grand lan getting ddos'd for the entirety of the event and then have tencent buy the rest of the company with a lower value while johan starts paying attention to yuan value

 

[BrianCatSter]

Is this the 3rd or 4th round of lobby take downs?

 

[cac579]

another lobby got taken offline and so the ddos is still active

 

[cac579]

update:
tried hosting on a singapore server and got taken out 1 year into the game

 

[Alpha2518]

update:
tried hosting on a singapore server and got taken out 1 year into the game

Talk about someone with no life. Who DDos the lobbies.

 

[Pieman90]

Tried to play with friends all day with hosts in europe and na.
No luck
Big sad.

 

[daman123]

Talk about someone with no life. Who DDos the lobbies.

Sad sad people with a lot of time on their hands. No lives!

 

[cac579]

well now people are getting ddos'd outside of hoi4 mp because their ip got stolen.

 

[commonJoe886]

well now people are getting ddos'd outside of hoi4 mp because their ip got stolen.

Yikes!

No chance in hell I'm ever gonna try playing MP.

 

[cac579]

Yikes!

No chance in hell I'm ever gonna try playing MP.

only for the host of the game but yeah mp is dead because of this.

 

[unsdeagel]

Yikes!

No chance in hell I'm ever gonna try playing MP.

almost like paradox security vulnerabilities are extremely serious and would get them prosecuted if it happens to someone who is willing to sue them over for

 

[ordinary_gamer]

This is so bad they have to fix it

 

[billcorr]

The HoI4 multiplayer Discord servers discuss these DDOS.

 

[Areonyx]

Paradox has to fix this ASAP before MP completely dies, there is no point in playing if the threat of your IP is still active.

 

[ShaunD]

Is it possible to setup a firewall rule to block all HoI4 traffic except for the IP addresses of the individuals that would like to join the server?

I am going on the assumption that the lobbies are hosted are decentralised.

 

[Simon_9732495]

well now people are getting ddos'd outside of hoi4 mp because their ip got stolen.

Can you explain what this means?
If a hostile person knows my IP, what can they do?

 

[jpd]

Can you explain what this means?
If a hostile person knows my IP, what can they do?

Nothing they couldn't do already.

It's not as if an IP number is a big secret. Anyone that's connected to the internet has a public, globally unique IP number. And a domain name associated with it.

Anyone can try to send unsolicited traffic to any IP number at any time, on any TCP port number.

However, depending on how your router/firewall is configured, you probably won't notice anything. But if you have, say, an Ubuntu Linux box and have enabled logging on your firewall, you will notice hundreds of connection attempts on your IP number each and every day.

 

[DebbieElla]

Hey there! We are aware of this issue, but unfortunately it's extremely hard to pin down. We are working on it though!