New DDoS Attack

[KallanX]

Hello Northstar Devs,

Been running a server for awhile now. Been seeing some weird activity lately. Within the last 24 hours or so, my server has been plagued by DDoS attacks. Looks like its coming from some sort of client side script that is initialized manually by the attacker. Once this attack happens, server lag spikes causing the game to be unplayable. Eventually, the server will soft lock causing me to have to do a force shutdown and restart.

Attaching log output below. This guy from the logs states he's going to do something and then the attack happens. He's not the only one. I have a few others from last night all with the same attack pattern.

Log:
[04:42:30] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Received message from entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])(1000174990674): my server now MFS
[04:42:50] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Received message from entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])(1000174990674): ok
[04:42:52] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Received message from entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])(1000174990674): just for u babe
[04:42:52] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:01] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:01] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:01] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:02] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:03] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:03] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:03] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:04] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:05] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:06] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:08] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:08] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])
[04:43:11] [info] [SERVER SCRIPT] Player client script initialization complete: entity (3: player RetroZX0 [3])

Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix or mitigate this would be greatly appreciated.

-Keith

[GeckoEidechse]

Thanks for info. We're already aware but unfortunately don't have a fix yet.