Rebalance Mod game now running on a 24h timer.

Arralen · #1 April 15th, 2005, 11:52 AM

Glad to hear that my remote diagnosis was correct

They and you have no idea where these port scanning comes from ?

I have: Didn't you use multiple instances of god's eye and dominions to connect to the dominions server? This would result in mutliple inactive connections from your IP to another IP. Normally, they would appear from one port on your side to multiple ports on the other (attacked) side, and not the other way round (as it obviously was), but maybe they didn't notice ... .

If they believe that after re-installing from a manufacturers disk, and installing AV software and firewall from another disk which was tested with at least 2 up-to-date scanners, your system still may be compromised, they're a bunch of morons. Being that, they might haven't noticed the untypical connection characteristics.

Get yourself another ISP ASAP, if feasable at all...

Btw. you didn't answer my email - do you have trouble with email as well ?

quantum_mechani · #2 April 15th, 2005, 12:17 PM

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Arralen said:
Glad to hear that my remote diagnosis was correct

They and you have no idea where these port scanning comes from ?

I have: Didn't you use multiple instances of god's eye and dominions to connect to the dominions server? This would result in mutliple inactive connections from your IP to another IP. Normally, they would appear from one port on your side to multiple ports on the other (attacked) side, and not the other way round (as it obviously was), but maybe they didn't notice ... .

If they believe that after re-installing from a manufacturers disk, and installing AV software and firewall from another disk which was tested with at least 2 up-to-date scanners, your system still may be compromised, they're a bunch of morons. Being that, they might haven't noticed the untypical connection characteristics.

Get yourself another ISP ASAP, if feasable at all...

Btw. you didn't answer my email - do you have trouble with email as well ?

I actually had the same thought, that God's Eye had something to do with it. However I got them to rescan my computer with whatever determined that I was port scanning in the first place (they are not very forthcoming about what exactly the scan is), and supposedly they still detect something even though I was not running dominions, god's eye or anything but browsers.

The only way I could guess that a virus might actually be there, is if it carried over my LAN to a work station and back to the server after it was restored.

Ironhawk · #3 April 15th, 2005, 02:40 PM

So you can access the internet, but can't do anything with games. No port use outside of port 80, then? I can send you your game files for this game - i might even be able to automate it in some fashion. But you did not answer Arralen's important question: are you still recieving email? Cause you have not responded to my email either.

In the meantime, the quickhost has been turned off.

Edit: Oh! Yeah Q, you should look into getting a port-scan detector utility. Pretty sure there are some on the web. Or call and ask your ISP what they are using so you can test yourself. Should be possible if you have more than one machine on your LAN?

quantum_mechani · #4 April 15th, 2005, 03:06 PM

Yes, I can still use E-mail (if you tried E-mailing me and it didn't come through you may have my old address, I will PM you my new one).

As I said they were not very forthcoming about what kind of scanner they are useing, but I will look into finding one on the web.

EDIT: I just checked, I did get Arralen's E-mail, I must have just overlooked it (time to clean the inbox).

Ironhawk · #5 April 15th, 2005, 08:26 PM

I have worked out the process with Q now and will continue to transfer turns for him until he can get his ISP situation worked out. The game is now back on 24hr QH.

Technically speaking there is only 5 hours left till the next turn should have generated (if we had not been interrupted). But I didnt want to force the host on that timeframe in case someone didnt check the game thread and though the timer was still off....

Ighalli · #6 April 17th, 2005, 04:36 PM

I just staled a turn and I think I missed some messages. Please, if you sent me something PM it to me. I wish dominions would save your messages from a stale turn...

Ironhawk · #7 April 18th, 2005, 01:50 PM

So, speaking of stale turns... it looks like Ighalli is about to stale again. Unless anyone objects I think we should give him a few hours leeway.