Ygdrad
Jul 9, 2014, 09:18 AM
I called my ISP, Cogeco, about the problem and was able to talk to someone who knew what was going on right away. I was told that yes, multiple ISP's are blocking traffic, but not only to pso2.jp, but all sites from their host (81.88.48.95) because they have insufficient security measures in place and the present breaches allow stuff like phishing, traffic redirecting and IP spoofing, it is also vulnerable to the Zeus botnet. I was told that there were not only attacks directed AT that host, but also coming FROM the host and that this is why it is blocked and will not be unblocked by most ISP's until they meet their demands and fix their security issues.
TLDR: There is nothing you, me, or Sega can do ourselves, the only thing to do is hope their host decide to conform to standard security measures and until then, most people wont be able to access PSO2.
Edit: I know that IP address is Italian and that seems weird. The tech I talked to might have also gotten that IP address wrong, it might be related to another security problem. That address was only given to me after everything about the problem pertaining to pso2.jp had already been explained when I asked for some extra info about the problematic host. The guy had to dig around a little so he might have just gotten another number unrelated to pso2.jp by mistake since apparently a lot of attacks happened around that time. So, ip address-aside, the info up there is still valid.
TLDR: There is nothing you, me, or Sega can do ourselves, the only thing to do is hope their host decide to conform to standard security measures and until then, most people wont be able to access PSO2.
Edit: I know that IP address is Italian and that seems weird. The tech I talked to might have also gotten that IP address wrong, it might be related to another security problem. That address was only given to me after everything about the problem pertaining to pso2.jp had already been explained when I asked for some extra info about the problematic host. The guy had to dig around a little so he might have just gotten another number unrelated to pso2.jp by mistake since apparently a lot of attacks happened around that time. So, ip address-aside, the info up there is still valid.