An emergency maintenance was held at 5:00 EST on 23rd June 2025 where the following bug fixes were pushed.
Fixed a server error caused by NPC jutsu casting.
Reduced timeout time for server login requests that seem to fail occasionally.
Fixed an error to do with buggy ignored players lists.
Important Notice
DDoS Protection on the server was turned on to prevent a certain kind of DDoS attack. This attack pattern has been noticed by us throughout the years coming unknowingly from people using ExitLag's software. ExitLag does not improve your connection to the server any more than a normal VPN. We have found in our own investigation that it employs a cheap tactic of creating multiple TCP connections to game servers to trick the server into sending back Ping packets faster, giving the illusion of better ping.
When an individual does it, it creates about 5 TCP connections from what we've noticed. But at high peak hours we've noticed up to thousands of them. This could be that the software increases the amount of TCP connections when latency is higher to try to get even more ping packets faster.
This is a dev log of our investigation into the matter from 2023
https://www.ninonline.com/forum/forums/index/topic/31678-exitlag-was-ddosing-us/