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 Posted: 17/05/2010 01:39 Post subject: Wowlegacy News |
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16.May.2010
All Realms offline, Legacy Legal problem as stated by Nico (Owner)
| Quote: | I've said I would give you guys an update on the events leading up until today so, here goes.
I've had this document on my desktop doing stuff, thinking about what I wanted to say, walking away, coming back but here goes. Some of you know and others don't how Legacy came to be. I left scape because peyton basically lost her mind, after she came back from a month hiatus, and frankly, the crap that she was doing, turned my stomach. I started Legacy on the sly, keeping things quiet, I mean the circle of people in the know was less then 10, and actually it was, myself, desire, darknation, taz, rob, and like 3 of my friends at scape. I left scape, but didn't really wish them any ill-will.
Legacy grew and shrank, and was open for about a year and a half, but our user base dwindled over time, until finally, I decided I was going to shut it down. Which I did after a couple weeks of empty servers. By that time, the only 2 people still active on the entire network was myself and elisea. The day, and I mean within hours of me closing down Legacy (v1) Silent sent me an msn asking me to come work for him at ConflictWoW as the staff manager, which, after a few hours of deliberation I agreed to do. Things were going ok, not great, it was a small, but committed community. I met ( and from what I've been told scared the shit out of) Hacker, and Weber.
Things were going fairly well, if relatively small, no great shakes, just another server in the world, another SMALL server. About 4 months in, my cell phone blows up, Rob ( one of the staff) keeps calling me until I answer ( I was at work) the network is down, and no one can get into any of the equipment. As I was about 15 minutes from the house, I was all "fine, I'll be right there to see what I can do"I get home, weber is trying to upload the site to restore it, and as fast as he can, it's being deleted on the webserver. Hours later, when I finally get in touch with Silent, he tells me that he's gone to work for Peyton, but part of that agreement is that he takes down conflict.
several heated minutes of discussion later, I convince silent to give me the character DBs so everyone wouldn't lose their toons.
Weber wasn't sure what was going on, Pudgemuffins ( One of the other owners of conflict) was as much in the dark as everyone else, but couldn't be bothered to even think about it at that time. Hacker, the other owner, who controlled the actual money for conflict, said he would be game to turn the last bit of donations over, and get another network running ( Legacy v2)
We launched legacy less then 24 hours later, using the character DBs we'd gotten from conflict, and by grabbing my old game server, from my friend ( and owner of the company we were hosted at) Chris. Legacy grew and shrank, but in general the population increased, just not at a dramatic pace.
About 3-4 months later ( give or take, I'm old and I can't really remember atm) Silent sent me an msn, saying he realized he'd made a horrible horrible mistake, and wanted to come over to Legacy. He'd said he'd been working on a BG realm that worked, and everyone loved. We went back and forth, and finally decided that it would be worth a shot. The cost for this? Silent would become a part owner with Hacker and myself.
OK phew, that's all ancient history.
Legacy, like all other private servers has had it's highs and lows in population. We've been #1 on the top100 and we've been real low. Personally I don't care, that was Silent's thing.
All in all I've been happy with our growth.
Now to the events.
Friday, I received a frantic msn from Elisea, saying that everyone's access had been pulled, she'd thought we'd been hacked. I found it hard to believe, since I'd set in place a couple security things that shouldn't have been able to be circumvented, but... yeah. My account was gone, my access to all the equipment was gone, and worse yet, the provider was hours away from the datacenter (and his phone, which the nitwit left at home that special day) As I was getting ready to walk out the door to an appointment, there was little I could do at that time, except for get information. Find out who was doing what. Some of you were here, you saw the posts. I never really had time to read them, but yeah, it was a real mess. The entire time, I had people on the inside getting information as to the plans, and about 10 that night, the provider called me on my cell, you know the guy that I started the server up with from way up there? yeah him. After about 30 seconds of me crawling so far up his anal cavity I got a good glimpse of his upper digestive tract, he pulled all the equipment offline. Since the business dealings of Legacy, have always gone through me, and since I had hacker firmly on my side, I told him to keep the equipment down until he heard from me. The deds were null ported ( but the game servers left running) the web server taken off line, until I could resolve the issue of silent, changing the registrar data at godaddy.
WoWLegacy.net, the domain name, was purchased by me, in 07, I renewed it in 09. I maintain sole responsibility for the domains. I mean I paid for them with my CC. All the owners shared access to that account, and so Silent, thinking to be slick, changed all the information, admin, contact, and technical to himself, changed the email, changed the password, and locked me out of that account as well.
Let me tell you how well that went over... Like a fart in church.Fortunately, since I'd paid for them with a CC and my name has been on the account since it was started, godaddy has certain procedures that they follow, forms, a trip to the legal department, lawyers, etc. Since 06, stuff like this has become a felony, and carries a 2 year sentence in a federal pen. There were so many laws broken it wasn't even funny, but regardless, all I wanted back was my domain name.
I talked to Silent yesterday, gave him the facts. I told him what godaddy told me, what the techs had told me, told him part of the information that they gave me to read, told him about what the legal department said, and whether he believed me or not, finally after about an hour and a half of talking ( and I use that term loosely) he gave me back the domains.
Now, part of it was that he wanted the game servers back up and running, and I almost lied, but I told him I wasn't discussing anything further until I had the domains back. Which he finally did, and I promptly changed all the information over, over the course of the next hour and a half. I then had safeguards put on the domain so that no one, but myself personally, could ever change the information on the site ever again.
Since the game servers have never been "down" it's only a little lie, I hate lying. If you were to count up the times silent has screwed me, this was the third, and last time, so while it was kind of a shitty thing to do, personally I feel it was justified.
As for all the allegations of people taking money from the alertpay account, well....
Fact#1. I don't have an alertpay account.
Fact#2. Silent in months of asking has never provided a financial report to myself or hacker, even tho we've asked numerous times.
Fact#3. The only person that has transferred money out of the alerpay account was Silent, who sent it to himself.
re fact3: Please don't make assumptions, while we don't know where the money went, we're looking for a trail on what it would have been spent on. I won't say
he stole the money because frankly at that time he was an owner and he couldn't "steal" the money, only misappropriate it.
Fact#4. Once Silent relinquished the domain information, and things were safely back under control, and the situation had calmed a bit, In a meeting of the owners of SNHSolutions, which owns wowlegacy, he was voted out of a position of power, and all his powers and privileges related were rescinded.
Besides the fact that he illegally took over the domain, he also deleted my and hacker's account, removed all of our posts, and removed our access to all of our equipment, without our knowledge without our consent. He ( or his merry band of asshats) deleted all the accounts on the vent server, cleared the ban list, removed everyone's access on the vent. He ( and his merry band of asshats) demoted all the staff, removed all their access on the forums. Whatever his reasoning, it went against the very basic charter we set in place when we formed the ownership group and subsequently left us no choice but to remove him.
So currently I am working on restoring the forums, when I get done, I will move to the servers, changing sql passes, making sure no other programs are running besides what is supposed to be running, and then, and ONLY then, will I put up the game servers for everyone else.
The steps I took are drastic, I won't deny that. I personally feel they were warranted. hopefully everyone understands.
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| Posted: 25/05/2010 21:35 Post subject: |
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25.May.2010 Server and site back on track
| Quote: | Hey All
As all of you are aware we have had some recent downtime on the site and server.
I'd just like to let everyone know the downtime the last 24 - 48 hours was not due to an attack or anything of that nature. It started with a Power outage at the data center. Once power was restored tables became corrupted and issues arose with the site and people becoming unable to connect. Elisea has been working pretty much non-stop to fix the corrupted tables and any issues that arose from them.
Everything went down today around 11 AM Central for the server boxes to be moved at the data center. At the time of posting this (2:30 PM Central) Deathwing, Legion, login, and the webserver are back online and running. Orion is being worked on at the moment to fix any other table issues and I will keep you posted on that.
Everyone who was having issues connecting to the site and or server should no longer be having issues.
We apologize for the downtime and thank you for your continued support of WoWLegacy. Once everything is up and running, we'll be compensating all servers for the downtime issues.
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| Posted: 02/06/2010 11:17 Post subject: |
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6.June.2010
If you have problems connecting try using:
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set patchlist us.version.Official.WoW
set realmlistbn ""
set portal us
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| Posted: 02/06/2010 23:14 Post subject: |
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6 June 2010
Mail System Has major BUGS!
Don't use it, items will get lost and you will regret it!
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| Posted: 04/06/2010 19:06 Post subject: |
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6 June 2010
All Realms down for the day
[url=http://www.wowlegacy.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=49842]Elisea[/url]
| Quote: | | The realms will be down much of the day as we move around several things it secure the servers. I'm sorry for such short notice but we feel it is necessary to do this now rather then wait any longer in the hopes it will help stop many of the issues we have been have over the last few weeks from continuing to happen. |
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| Posted: 04/06/2010 20:24 Post subject: |
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Oh no 
Bye Bye weekend
Bye Bye weeklies
I think we better all go and do something productive 
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| Posted: 08/06/2010 20:54 Post subject: |
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8 June 2010
Major Rollback of all realms, 11days back to the past.
- Compensation, xp rate increased to 4.5x on Legion
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| Posted: 08/06/2010 21:00 Post subject: |
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this is from wowlegacy
| Ixius wrote: | 8 June 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Elisea pretty much covered what the issue is in her initial post.
I understand yall are tired of these rollbacks, I completely do. With that said here is what I can tell you.
We rolled Deathwing back on the 5th of this month to a backup from May 28th 2010, this backup worked perfectly, there was/is absolutely no data corruption to this backup due to numerical values being re-arranged.
Orion and Legion are a different story, these were only rolled back to just before the 1st, after quick examination of both of these servers databases it did not appear that these servers would be affected by the same numerical re-arrangement, the sad part is last night Orion one of our second biggest databases, started dropping data the same way Deathwing did before it was rolled back. This instantly told us that Orion needed to be rolled back to yet another date, May 28th 2010 as well. While we pulled all of the machines offline last night to get Orion rolled back we inspected the Legion database as well only to find that it would eventually suffer the same fate as Orion, since Legion is not as big it would have taken a bit longer, maybe weeks to a month or so before we would see the signs of database corruption again.
Legion was restored to May 28th 2010 as well to prevent the re-occurrence from happening much later in the game.
Please understand, everyone at WoWLegacy including myself and Elisea are volunteers. We have spent numerous hours up all night long to try and fix these issues, we thought we had these fixed 2 days ago and again this proved to be true for Deathwing only.
There is speculation going around that our servers are insecure, this is absolutely not the case. All database communication is done internally through authorized IP addresses between the servers. All of the game servers run firewall software to prevent unauthorized access. With that said, wowlegacy does have a linux server that did have accounts created by previous staff members of legacy which were overlooked until June 2nd 2010. That server is now firewalled and secure as well. Unfortunately that server was the point which allowed the previous staff members to get into the database servers and do whatever they please.
With that said, what actions are we taking?
Well, not only have we notified the ISP's of the previous staff members who actively logged into the servers to cause malicious harm, we have also notified the authorities in the state of Ohio and Texas where these two members currently reside.
We have double and triple checked all of the servers for security. We have changed all passwords and have seriously limited server access to under a handful of authorized users.
You may ask, who are you?
Up until this month I was the guy who simply hosted the servers which WoWLegacy utilizes, now I am helping WoWLegacy to get their databases secure and servers stable once again. I have been doing linux/windows system administration including php/mysql for 7+ years. I have been in the IT industry for well over 10.
With that said, I am pretty confident that these servers will now remain stable from this point forward. I have gone through all of the databases to ensure that no other malicious fields are there.
To the users who are leaving due to the rollbacks. I do ask that you wait atleast a week to see what happens here. I personally understand the pain it is to have to keep doing this.
To everyone else who has been patient, thank you very much!
Nico or Hacker will be announcing a more official news article once they are confident that the servers are stable. |
official topic read here
http://www.wowlegacy.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=50057
I think we can give this server some more time and honostly I dont think we will ever find another server
we just have to wait /sigh |
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| Posted: 08/06/2010 21:01 Post subject: |
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| and we lost some items we will have to get them back and in the meanwhile we night think of doing something productive |
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| Posted: 20/06/2010 22:37 Post subject: |
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18th June 2010
Scripts are back on.
Cross faction mail, Auction House Enabled.
Multiple factions on one account Enabled.
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| Posted: 05/07/2010 19:12 Post subject: |
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5th July 2010
Seems the fun aint over, server has another big problem
| Quote: | Guys, we apologize for the recent downtime, it's being caused by someone hitting a gameobject that is causing the servers to crash. Repeatedly...
This isn't a normal thing, and honestly, almost all the recent downtime is beyond our control. Elisea, Hacker, Sanity, and the rest are working nonstop to try to get this under control.
I wish I could give a more definative answer as to when things will be back to normal, but unfortunately it's taking some time.
This just brings up a point, if you see someone, continuously sitting doing a repeated action, and the server has become unstable, send us a note and we'll look into it. Or if you find a gameobject that doesn't act the way that it should, let us know and we'll get it fixed, no questions asked.
Thanks for your understanding. |
by Nico 2July2010([url=http://www.wowlegacy.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=51323]Topic Link[/url])
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| Posted: 11/07/2010 19:39 Post subject: |
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Posted By Ixius (source http://invasionknights.tk/ )
| Quote: | Hello Legacy Community,
I just wanted to provide everyone with a quick update.
We are still experiencing some heavy ddos in the form of a Syn Flood to pretty much all of our open ports.
The information previously provided by Hacker is 100% accurate. I will say with 100% confidence that Crusade Gaming is behind these attacks while Silent will completely deny this we have proof and solid evidence linking Silent and Crusade Gaming to these attacks.
I have contacted the local authorities in the state of Texas where myself and Silent currently reside regarding this issue, the FBI office out of Houston, Texas is gathering log files and any data that we have pertaining to this issue.
Why Houston? Well, our good friend Silent lives out of Spring, TX which is just outside of Houston, north about 20 miles.
Anyways, we are working pretty hard to get this issue resolved. We have devised up a few solutions which could potentially fix this problem once and for all. A notification will be sent out to everyone once we can be sure this solution will be good for everyone.
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| Posted: 13/07/2010 09:12 Post subject: |
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13 July 2010
Legion and Orion back up and running smooth
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| Posted: 13/07/2010 17:17 Post subject: |
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[17:19:05] TrinityCore Rev: 8820 Release Hash: d2d7cd10bcfd (Win64,little-endian)
[17:19:05] Online players: 40 (max: 52)
[17:19:05] Active connections: 40 (max: 53) Queued connections: 0 (max: 0)
[17:19:05] Server uptime: 13 Hour(s) 19 Minute(s) 17 Second(s).
[17:19:05] Update time diff: 63. |
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[17:19:05] TrinityCore Rev: 8820 Release Hash: d2d7cd10bcfd (Win64,little-endian)
[17:19:05] Online players: 40 (max: 52)
[17:19:05] Active connections: 40 (max: 53) Queued connections: 0 (max: 0)
[17:19:05] Server uptime: 13 Hour(s) 19 Minute(s) 17 Second(s).
[17:19:05] Update time diff: 63. |
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| Posted: 27/07/2010 12:04 Post subject: |
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| ok, seems that the lagging spikes were solved (currently the server is running 7h30min, and was there 3x +- 40min and no lags... |
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| Posted: 29/07/2010 16:09 Post subject: |
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Weeklies seems fixed = only 1 per week
ICC - Marrowar finally have correct HP on all modes and is attackable, Hebla said he's doing his job on 10M normal... (so this will be a nice challenge 
QuelDelar quests (are available ATM) |
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| Posted: 16/10/2010 15:50 Post subject: |
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Until the website is up, Staff is manually creating accounts.
You need to have a forum account to access this:
http://www.wowlegacy.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=52025&hl=
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| Posted: 01/11/2010 13:48 Post subject: |
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Hi, If you're having problems logging in try to use this realmlist:
set realmlist 66.207.174.133
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8th Dec 2010
Vote and Rewards are available on the new site!
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