[IstuntmanI]

Well, I guess this is why the "Official" tab (well, if I remember correctly, they said that this was exactly this reason) was removed years ago: imagine these attacks centered only on ~10 servers, not on 400 servers.

Yeah, it looks like it affects only the querying mechanism, but because the samp.exe client probably has a timeout of probably 500 milliseconds or so, so it won't wait 5 seconds for a probably closed server, servers won't appear in Hosted tab, that's why someone said that the hosted tab loads only 175 servers or so. The problem is that players (most of them) won't join from hosted tab. To me it looks like right now on my server are only players that had my server stored in their favorites tab.

Vince is right, banning all these ranges:

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188.0.0.0/8 180.0.0.0/8 181.0.0.0/8 186.0.0.0/8 190.0.0.0/8 200.0.0.0/8 201.0.0.0/8

is insanely huge. I actually have a few players from those countries.

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Originally Posted by dugi An update won't fix ddos attacks, this sort of spoofed IP flood attacks have been happening for years.

I guess SA-MP could improve filtering of the requests.