Updated Info and Prevention on Hacking Outbreak

• Shizukani wrote on 2012-01-01 01:39

  Quote from Rydian;715866:

  When I was referencing how people thought of it, I put "speed/power" for a reason. :P

  
  
  Still don't agree with the "speed" part :P
  
  

  Quote from DragoniteAce;715877:

  Basically the point is IP's don't mean crap. I hate when people flip that "THEY CAN TRACK YOUR IP QQ" card yeah? well just as easy as it is to track my ip its easy for me to change it. IP's now-a-days are no longer static, we have dynamic ip's very few have static ip's ~.~ This exploit/hack Isn't using your IP but more or so your game ID through the game's script :/

  
  
  Really? I always thought static IPs were the norm.
• Rydian wrote on 2012-01-01 01:44

  Quote from DragoniteAce;715877:

  Basically the point is IP's don't mean crap. I hate when people flip that "THEY CAN TRACK YOUR IP QQ" card yeah? well just as easy as it is to track my ip its easy for me to change it. IP's now-a-days are no longer static, we have dynamic ip's very few have static ip's ~.~ This exploit/hack Isn't using your IP but more or so your game ID through the game's script :/

  I mostly agree with this. While I certainly agree that people need to stop freaking out any time somebody says "IP", it is sometimes useful for matching actions within a certain time frame (for example seeing of multiple accounts are actually the same person in an IM conversation or something), but that itself can run into issues as NAT can mean two different people/computers in the same house have the same WAN IP and crap like that...
  
  But yeah, "tracing your IP" is generally stuff script kiddies that watch CSI and thought it was real say.
  
  

  Quote from Shizukani;715901:

  Really? I always thought static IPs were the norm.

  Well many IPs nowadays that people think are static are actually "sticky", that is they ARE dynamic instead of static, but since most modems/routers are left on for long periods of time, the lease time of IP addresses for home cable connections and such are set to long periods and thus the assigned IPs rarely change (unless the router/modem happens to be off/disconnected during the time the lease expires or something, which isn't that common).
  
  While on the other hand you have people with ****ty connections like myself, who can see their IP change daily as their net keeps going out. >_<
• Shizukani wrote on 2012-01-01 01:54

  Quote from Rydian;715908:

  Well many IPs nowadays that people think are static are actually "sticky", that is they ARE dynamic instead of static, but since most modems/routers are left on for long periods of time, the lease time of IP addresses for home cable connections and such are set to long periods and thus the assigned IPs rarely change (unless the router/modem happens to be off/disconnected during the time the lease expires or something, which isn't that common).
  
  While on the other hand you have people with ****ty connections like myself, who can see their IP change daily as their net keeps going out. >_<

  
  
  Interesting. So with sticky IPs, they change if your router is reset or if your Internet goes out?
• Deitylight wrote on 2012-01-01 02:04
  Can we please stick to the topic?
  As far as I know, they only need your character ID to kill your characters which isn't rocket science to get in the first place.
• Rydian wrote on 2012-01-01 02:11

  Quote from Shizukani;715920:

  Interesting. So with sticky IPs, they change if your router is reset or if your Internet goes out?

  In most cases, only if that happens during the time when the lease expires. DHCP lease times are the thing you want to read up on for more info (do note that the lease time you get listed in ipconfig/ifconfig is not your internet IP's lease time, because the computer is getting internal/private addresses from the router which are on a totally different lease, you'll need to look in the router's config to see if it lists the WAN/internet address lease time).
  
  But yeah this is getting a little out of hand, but a main point is that IP addresses on the internet don't work the way most people think.... which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how paranoid you are.
• Conor wrote on 2012-01-01 02:15
  Would hide prevent you from being hacked?
  
  'Cause with R9 Medi, elves can stay in hide for ever.
• killajb22 wrote on 2012-01-01 02:22

  Quote from Conor;715945:

  Would hide prevent you from being hacked?
  
  'Cause with R9 Medi, elves can stay in hide for ever.

  
  
  I thought everybody could see elves using hide as of g15.....? or was that g16? Ok im confused :\
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-01-01 02:24
  The hackers can't make you create a tent when you already have a skill up.
• Catmint wrote on 2012-01-01 02:49
  Hope they don't rollback to far I got like 2 Volcano's the past week :x
• TrainAurion wrote on 2012-01-01 02:53
  Hmm dunno how true this is but i heard that if you have a campkit set out, they can still blackrobe your character. i heard someone losing their head and keeping their camp kit x.x;; oh i also heard you need at least rF campfire to be affected
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-01-01 02:57
  ^ I think I read that too, you can't use the campfire skill if you don't have it so it make sense.
• DragoniteAce wrote on 2012-01-01 03:09
  Game Has Gone INTO MAINTENANCE. I was in and got auto-logged out
  
  ~Check Nexon Website and Wiki~
• TrainAurion wrote on 2012-01-01 03:15
  not maint, it says going offline :/ so the game is just shut down right?
• DragoniteAce wrote on 2012-01-01 03:15

  Quote from TrainAurion;715990:

  not maint, it says going offline :/ so the game is just shut down right?

  
  
  If anyone wishes for more info Please redirect yourselves to the following link:
  
  http://mabinogi.nexon.net/News/View.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=00DSU&pageIndex=1
• Strawberry wrote on 2012-01-01 03:20

  Quote from TrainAurion;715990:

  not maint, it says going offline :/ so the game is just shut down right?

  
  
  Yup, it's just shutting down, as there's no solution so far. Assuming they just noticed it now. ;A;