I've just been DDOS'D attacked on LOL

SupaLem0n·Aug 17, 2016·1 votes·411 views

I was playing botlane with leona, we were destroying botlane. Then all of a sudden I get disconnected. I wait for about 4 minutes then I left the game. I could never get back in, I kept trying to access league over chrome. That failed. Over my phone too!! That failed. I went on my mobile carrier network to get on league. Guess what, THAT WORKED. I could see the league websitr over my mobile network!! My network was fine and steady nothing was going wrong. then as soon as I came back to the game in about 10 minutes, the match waa over and I was finally able to get back in. And now I got a leaverbuster for about 5 games and wait time is 20 min!!WTF! I have the recent game info to with all the players. I think it was the ashe! My name is Handofmorality

12 Comments

MagicFlyingLlamaAug 17, 20165 votes

This is not how DDoS works.

First, it is not a hack. It cannot prevent you from accessing specific sites (it blocks all stable access to the internet), and doing it over LoL is impossible, since there is no way for other players to see your network address.

You probably have a crappy ISP, or experienced a glitch with your router/DNS, or an IP lease resetting, or any number of other common networking errors.

AviatinqAug 17, 20161 votes

You could knock down the internet of anyone you play with in League.

MagicFlyingLlamaAug 18, 20161 votes

Explain how you would go about doing that, i would love to hear the strange, magical explanation. Does it involve simple things like hacking the riot servers?

AviatinqAug 18, 20161 votes

Hell if i know how to do it. I just know you can do it.

MagicFlyingLlamaAug 19, 20161 votes

So basically you are just saying random stuff.

I know exactly how you _ cannot _ do it, because i understand how networking and the internet functions. The only possible way would be hacking the riot servers and injecting all sorts of code to monitor them, and that is also effectively impossible without some sort of inside job, which all 1337 hax0r kids think they are capable of, apparently.

AviatinqAug 19, 20161 votes

I'm not a computer genius. I just know you can do it. I'm not just saying random stuff. I know you can fly a plane, but I personally dunno how to fly a plane. I know you can create missiles, but i dunno how to do that either. I'm saying it's possible. Not that it's easy, not that all you need to do is own league and bam it's done.

Deep Terror NamiAug 17, 20162 votes

More likely your issue is connection related, so please head over to the Connection Troubleshooting Log Reader. There, you can submit the Network logs from your match(es) and the log reader will show if you were having ping spikes and packet loss.

It will then will direct you to solutions. Please work through the solutions it suggests, and if you need assistance or they do not work come back here and we'll try to help.

You can also narrow down the source of latency or packet loss by downloading the WinMTR Network Diagnostic Tool, then use that to run a traceroute to the following IP (allow this to run for 5-15 minutes);