from Russia, with love...

[Ladrone]

I want to thank everyone who has dedicated their time and effort into making this such a great community and keeping the game alive.

For those of you who want to do bad things, I feel sorry for your upcoming visit from Karma.

I recently set up a new server to play a little classic EQ with some friends. At first it I set it up for just a LAN session but then decided to connect it to the internet...

Thankfully I set up a separate router and ISP connection to protect the rest of my personal devices. I cleared the logs on the router and within 10 minutes of forwarding ports and being connected to the internet I was being violated...

[Internet disconnected] Monday, May 18,2020 21:29:11
[LAN access from remote] from 185.176.27.14:59422 to 192.168.2.136:7084, Monday, May 18,2020 21:27:19
[LAN access from remote] from 185.176.27.14:59422 to 192.168.2.136:7085, Monday, May 18,2020 21:17:23

I simply unplugged the ISP as soon as I noticed the traffic, but if I had not been mindful of the traffic I wonder what would be crawling around in my server today.

I am not a network engineer or a software developer, I dabble with tech a little bit and maybe I am just being paranoid. What I do know is that this person in Russia is hot for my patch.


person: ****
address: ****
phone: ****
email: ****