Basically, I am having some unusual (but apparently not uncommon) accessing the severs of the Japanese MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2. The problems started June 18th, when the servers were taken down in response to a continuous DDoS attack.
Sega of Japan announced that measures were being put in place, and a little over a week later, the servers came back online. However, most people outside of Japan attempting access the servers were met with errors, and the official website (pso2.jp) is also inaccessible. While one might reasonably suspect that an IP range ban has been put in place, the evidence indicates otherwise.
http://www.reddit.com/r/PSO2/comments/29n4yt/there_is_no_ip_ban_updated/
As this thread indicates, Time Warner customers are now able to access the servers, and tracert results widely suggest that the requests are being stopped well before they actually reach Sega's servers. I figured I'd ask here on a forum of networking experts and CenturyLink support specialists. If it IS my ISP blocking access to this game, perhaps asked to by Sega to counter the DDoS, then I'd like to know when I can expect to have access again. Here are my tracert results (with home IP removed):
http://pastebin.com/AHw28HLu
Thank you for your time.
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