It's possible to stop a 'DoS' attack in Roblox?

[6Clu (clu)]

You can, but I’m not sure how valid of a method this would be with tons of events at once.

[blazeswipe (blaze)]

Please read what I stated:

@blazeswipe

Even if you put some sort of debounce on the remote event, that won’t stop an exploiter. What they do is fire the event from a remote place. The debounce will only help your OWN code from spamming an event. As of now, this guy might be spamming events instead of DDoSing. A tick() will also not help because it prevents ONLY your code from running the event too fast.

If he does spam a remote, even if you have a debounce or a time check, it will still overload the server with too many requests and most definitely lag your game.

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[AGoodGuyHere]

No, they basically have a server you connect to, not literally a man in the middle accepting calls lol
So unless they have access to that server, no, they wont have your IP

[Corrupted_LuaFile (Deadshrouded)]

After making so research i found out that you might actually have a backdoor inside of your game, a backdoor is the only way they can get server-sided access to your game
I suggest you check out your plugins, check out this post made by @Sudden_Demise for more information:

How to remove backdoors from your game

Hello, recently I’ve seen a lot of backdoor, exploit, and hack related posts on the DevForum. A couple of people asked me to release my method of removing backdoors because I usually respond to these posts with a help offering, and fix their games. I’m gonna list steps, strings, and ways to prevent getting your game backdoored. The main question of all is : “What is a backdoor?” A backdoor is something that exploiters use to gain server-sided (fully-replicated) access to your games. It is impo…

[UnlimitedKeeping (Avenzey)]

you’re not really able to stop this on your end, only roblox are able to stop this, and regards of how they’re doing it, it’s rather easy to get the port and IP of a roblox game server, and then they use a DDoS tool, and they just overload your servers, or they use a traditional exploit based server lagger.

[blazeswipe (blaze)]

He might just be spamming remotes. It would lag the server a ton if the server gets too many requests.

[ItsNxthaniel (ItzNxthaniel)]

DOS and DDOS are almost a like
although, different.

DOS is targeted to one person.
Hacker → 1 Person (Target)

DDOS is targeted to a group.
Hacker → YouTube, Roblox, Discord, Facebook, and more.

[detourious]

This isn’t true, either.

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is when one computer attacks a target.

A distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is when multiple computers among many different internet connections attack a target, hence “distributed.”

[ItsNxthaniel (ItzNxthaniel)]

Thank you, had it slightly backwards.

[detourious]

yes

[FrankKitchener]

I’m almost sure it will take more than an amplifier to take down the roblox servers completely, and will probably cost the person launching the attack more money to launch it than what it’d cost roblox.

[FrankKitchener]

I do cyber security, and I’d have to say you might be a little confused, a DOS attack isnt distributed so the attack would come from 1 single host with no botnets and a DDOS attack is distributed, so it’d come from more than one host and would often use botnet. So in simple terms. DOS is from one host and DDOS comes from multiple hosts or devices.

[Ozmius (Ozzy)]

I would suggest extending player age to 3 months and just banning all of his alts. Also to my knowledge only one server can be ddosed at a time so if the game grows it wont be that big of a deal.

[Paintertable]

Weird question maybe but how are you doing cyber security with the age of 14?

[FrankKitchener]

Not professionally obviously. (30 chars)

[Corrupted_LuaFile (Deadshrouded)]

I can tell you that they are spamming some sort of RemoteEvents, even if they are secured they can still use it, someone once told me that the :Connect() function will lag the game servers cpu at one point since you’re always connecting it new everytime you use it, i haven’t found any way to use multiple arguments with: RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Wait()
but i know it is possible