Steam DDOS Attack

Posted by Blitz at 14:40 5/3/2004.

The official Steam news has been updated with a little info regarding the recent update, as well as bringing word of a distributed denial of service attack directed at Steam yesterday:

"This morning at about 8:30 PST, Steam was hit by a distributed denial of service attack. For about two and a half hours, Steam and its games were unavailable to users. We have since fixed the problem, and player numbers have returned to a normal state.
Steam's content servers are still busy with yesterday's update, but for the most part Steam users have been able to get up and running without problems.
The new email validation feature has been causing some users confusion. Our network problems have caused the validation emails to be delivered too slowly -- if you are waiting to receive your automated email response from Steam, please give it some time. We're sorry if this is causing inconvenience; the delivery speed will be improved soon."

As if Steam wasn't slow enough already...

Comments

	Scam 14:41 5/3/2004	Is stuff supposed to be working now? I just reinstalled Steam and cant get onto the network. btw ''blah blah blah'' at Valve. You suck, Steam sucks, get over it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blitz Editor UKTerrorist 14:42 5/3/2004	think they're saying that things are slowly getting better, agreed though, steam's p***. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Seaweed 14:44 5/3/2004	yey its f*ed again just f*ing implement bt style p2p u fags [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 14:57 5/3/2004	lol, as if it was - just another excuse:) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Noah- r4ngers 14:59 5/3/2004	steam is the best thing ever I love steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	logik piranhas 15:06 5/3/2004	That old chestnut eh. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 15:21 5/3/2004	lol ;] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mu1e RemOte.uK 15:25 5/3/2004	<3 Steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jimmeh 15:27 5/3/2004	ne1 else think this is bull poo? thier making it up so that it appears its not thier fault [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fez 15:43 5/3/2004	DoS attack my ass. ur program and servers are s*** just face it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	K^\| 15:51 5/3/2004	Yes strange how this kind of action always coincides with an update innt. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wolfie WanadooWolfie 16:03 5/3/2004	i thought DDoS was destructive denial of service :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 16:05 5/3/2004	You thought wrong! Clearly Steam just became the first to successfully ddos themselves :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	richeh #thkillerz 16:36 5/3/2004	but there isn't a major lan going on atm so they must be lying [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Cameron battered 16:45 5/3/2004	i thought DDoS was destructive denial of service :S you were wrong! :P oh .. and yeah, very convenient timing =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 17:07 5/3/2004	obviously best time to do it when there least gonna get caught cus so many millions of people wanna download patch instantly as it comes out [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-Naz- fightclubclan 17:11 5/3/2004	perhaps the reason they brought in the designer of bittorrent was to implement a p2p style, so steam wont be brought to a standstill everytime an update comes out. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 17:18 5/3/2004	http://m4h.sphosting.com/obvious-1.jpg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Fox ClanNEW 18:43 5/3/2004	be 100 times better if they made it available as a torrent update instead of integrating p2p into steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sm[o][o]th 20:46 5/3/2004	btw its not BS, if you look at the status screen around 30,000 people connected instantly at 8pm PST [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	kae 00:34 6/3/2004	end of the day, WON > Steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	antman 01:51 13/3/2004	guys its clearly guna take some time for steam to become 'perfect'... u can still use 1.5 and WON if u dont like steam. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

	Scam 14:41 5/3/2004	Is stuff supposed to be working now? I just reinstalled Steam and cant get onto the network. btw ''blah blah blah'' at Valve. You suck, Steam sucks, get over it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blitz Editor UKTerrorist 14:42 5/3/2004	think they're saying that things are slowly getting better, agreed though, steam's p***. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Seaweed 14:44 5/3/2004	yey its f*ed again just f*ing implement bt style p2p u fags [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 14:57 5/3/2004	lol, as if it was - just another excuse:) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Noah- r4ngers 14:59 5/3/2004	steam is the best thing ever I love steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	logik piranhas 15:06 5/3/2004	That old chestnut eh. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 15:21 5/3/2004	lol ;] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mu1e RemOte.uK 15:25 5/3/2004	<3 Steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jimmeh 15:27 5/3/2004	ne1 else think this is bull poo? thier making it up so that it appears its not thier fault [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fez 15:43 5/3/2004	DoS attack my ass. ur program and servers are s*** just face it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	K^\| 15:51 5/3/2004	Yes strange how this kind of action always coincides with an update innt. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wolfie WanadooWolfie 16:03 5/3/2004	i thought DDoS was destructive denial of service :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 16:05 5/3/2004	You thought wrong! Clearly Steam just became the first to successfully ddos themselves :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	richeh #thkillerz 16:36 5/3/2004	but there isn't a major lan going on atm so they must be lying [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Cameron battered 16:45 5/3/2004	i thought DDoS was destructive denial of service :S you were wrong! :P oh .. and yeah, very convenient timing =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 17:07 5/3/2004	obviously best time to do it when there least gonna get caught cus so many millions of people wanna download patch instantly as it comes out [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-Naz- fightclubclan 17:11 5/3/2004	perhaps the reason they brought in the designer of bittorrent was to implement a p2p style, so steam wont be brought to a standstill everytime an update comes out. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 17:18 5/3/2004	http://m4h.sphosting.com/obvious-1.jpg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Fox ClanNEW 18:43 5/3/2004	be 100 times better if they made it available as a torrent update instead of integrating p2p into steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sm[o][o]th 20:46 5/3/2004	btw its not BS, if you look at the status screen around 30,000 people connected instantly at 8pm PST [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	kae 00:34 6/3/2004	end of the day, WON > Steam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	antman 01:51 13/3/2004	guys its clearly guna take some time for steam to become 'perfect'... u can still use 1.5 and WON if u dont like steam. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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