[cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

Mon Sep 1 18:13:15 EDT 2008

I think I do. Course could be reading too much into it, but my own trace
routes were showing some real weird routing.

Sounds like man in middle attack. It was just demonstrated at defcon last
week where they hijack a netblock and redirect all traffic for it to fake
servers. Problem is this typically is noticed. Youtubes worldwide outage a
few weeks back was an intentional man in middle attack by the Pakistan Gov.
The demo at hackercon showed a new way of doing it to make it unnoticed.
Great for Key stealing unnoticed if the master server traffic isn’t
encrypted.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html

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From: Joker{eXtreme+} [mailto:joker at mycallofduty.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:54 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

*LOL* I wish I understood what that meant, but thanks for the reply :)

~Joker

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From: Bryan Kuhn <mailto:bryan at infinityward.com>  

To: cod at icculus.org 

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:50 PM

Subject: Re: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

Seems like there was a bad route deep in the bowels of the internet tubes.

Monday, September 1, 2008, 2:46:17 PM, Joker{eXtreme+} wrote:

Please Bryan -- can to give a few more details?

Thanks

~Joker

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From:  <mailto:bryan at infinityward.com> Bryan Kuhn 

To:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org 

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:44 PM

Subject: Re: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

I think we got this fixed.

Monday, September 1, 2008, 8:57:18 AM, John Kennington wrote:

It is also a holiday here in the US (Labor Day).  It seems very sporadic
here.  The SE US was out yesterday, and the NE went out for a few hours this
morning.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Andre Lorbach <
<mailto:alorbach at ro1.adiscon.com> alorbach at ro1.adiscon.com> wrote:

It looks pretty much like that the master servers are under a DDoS attack,
and they are trying to get it under control by blocking ip-blocks. We have
many users reporting that they can't connect in cod4 and also cannot access
the homepage of Activision  <http://www.activision.com> www.activision.com.
Others can join servers, and can access the homepage. 

Regards,

Andre

From: Jeff [mailto: <mailto:jfcampocasso at hotmail.com>
jfcampocasso at hotmail.com] 

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 5:20 PM

To:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org

Subject: RE: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

After almost 25 hours, issue is still there, I called Activision french call
center that confirmed me the problem was the loss of their main servers. 

At the time they're not able to say how long it will last. 

I will receive a mail for every new information about issue (that's what
support told me...) and post a reply here if answer is interresting.

Hope they'll fix it soon. 

CYA ALL 

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:43:02 +0200

From:  <mailto:kueche at gameworld.dascazino.de> kueche at gameworld.dascazino.de

To:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org

Subject: Re: RE: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

I think Activision have some problems or updates with the Masterserver´s.

Same problem for 16 Hours in France .

Some people still can't connect their servers. The problems does not affect
all players but it's worldwide. 

 <http://infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13618>
http://infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13618

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:31:09 -0700

From:  <mailto:bryan at infinityward.com> bryan at infinityward.com

To:  <mailto:dsmith at myismail.com> dsmith at myismail.com

CC:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org

Subject: Re: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

Can you send some traceroutes and client ip addresses?

Sunday, August 31, 2008, 5:25:03 PM, Danny Smith wrote:

Still getting reports of it from clients, servers all over the US.

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From: Bryan Kuhn [mailto: <mailto:bryan at infinityward.com>
bryan at infinityward.com] 

Sent: 01 September 2008 12:59 AM

To: John Kennington

Cc:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org

Subject: Re: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

How's it looking for everyone now?

Sunday, August 31, 2008, 4:29:34 PM, John Kennington wrote:

They were down for a good bit today.  I was unable to ping any of them
starting about 1:40 PM EDT.

They appear to be back up, though.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Joker{eXtreme+} <
<mailto:joker at mycallofduty.com> joker at mycallofduty.com> wrote:

Master Servers have been up and down since Friday I believe

~Joker

----- Original Message ----- 

From:  <mailto:dsmith at myismail.com> Danny Smith 

To:  <mailto:cod at icculus.org> cod at icculus.org 

Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:27 PM

Subject: [cod] Awaiting Keycode authorization

Hey guys,

Anyone know if there are problems with the COD4 servers? Lots of people are
getting Awaiting Keycode authorization on joining servers. L

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