crashing my servers

[twl_viper]

How to stop this? -

   

   server crashes or locks up without restart.

   [code]Client 178 connecting with 250 challenge ping

   Client 178 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 178 connecting with 5950 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 300 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 5950 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 300 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 6000 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 250 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 2850 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 5850 challenge ping[/quote]

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twl_viper :
   How to stop this? -

   

   server crashes or locks up without restart.

   [code]Client 178 connecting with 250 challenge ping

   Client 178 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 178 connecting with 5950 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 300 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 179 connecting with 5950 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 300 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 2950 challenge ping

   Client 180 connecting with 6000 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 250 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 2850 challenge ping

   Client 181 connecting with 5850 challenge ping

   [/quote]

   

   Stop the people from connecting in the first place...:D

   It looks like it was already locked WAY before this?

   Unless you have 178 slots..LOL

   

   Linux or Windows?

   Any thing above this from your Qconsole log?

[twl_viper]

its 14 slots, linux and the only thing in the log above this is more of the same. - the same thing has happened a few times. the server hangs

[Soldier Of Ra]

I think it's the buffer overflow...not sure though, some idiot crashed my server a couple of times with the same thing. Suddenly my server was getting filled with players who got the same weird name and 999 ping. I can't remember myself fixing this except tracking his IP and informing his provider who informed (apparently) his parents about it. He stopped hehe

   

   Did you patch your server against BOF?

[Salombo]

twl_viper :
   its 14 slots, linux and the only thing in the log above this is more of the same. - the same thing has happened a few times. the server hangs

   

   

   It doesn't give you the ips ?

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I don't think its the BOF exploit...

   

   That will give a name and a escalating port number

   port 7777

   port 7778 etc.....

   

   If the server is hung then the ips wont be logged.

   

   I know about the BOF stuff(it was done to my server more times then i would like to remember..:D )

   Kinda my M.O to piss people off..:p

[Paladin]

Looks like IP flooding to me.  If you use Foresight to scan your server, it will prevent this.

[twl_viper]

it appears to be fixed - provider installed a patch in the form of an updated server binary. If you are haveing similiar issues look to your provider. If you run your own server look to icculus site.

[JoeyC]

Viper what provider are you with, and what was the fix??.

[twl_viper]

game servers - I can't say specifically, it would be for a Linux though - i am not even sure it worked yet. I do know that as soon as the activity stopped on my server, there were a stream of other disgruntled attempts to map restart and spam in game.

   

   perhaps someone that knows how to do it can try on my server and see if it is fixed.

   

   let me know if there are any volunteers.

[*Herr_Kruger]

Card :
   I don't think its the BOF exploit...

   

   

   I know about the BOF stuff

   Kinda my M.O to piss people off..:p

   

   

   Carl, how many times did i tell you not to stop by in the war legends server ??

[twl_viper]

I know its suppose to be funny - but I;ve been dealing with a crashing server for several months now. :((

   

   Just now was my objective server - it will run fine for several maps maybe even a whole rotation. then without any noticeable errors it will hang up - you can watch the connection icon blink as long as you decide to stay on - if you leave and try to come back, you time out. But if everyone leaves, the server picks up again just fine in the same map you left it. :((

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twl_viper :
   I know its suppose to be funny - but I;ve been dealing with a crashing server for several months now. :((

   

   Just now was my objective server - it will run fine for several maps maybe even a whole rotation. then without any noticeable errors it will hang up - you can watch the connection icon blink as long as you decide to stay on - if you leave and try to come back, you time out. But if everyone leaves, the server picks up again just fine in the same map you left it. :((

   

   

   My Spearhead Server from Gameservers does the SAME thing!!!

   You will sit there and watch the icon blink,the map time still works but you are in limbo(as a player)

   Then after some time you MIGHT be a player again(the icon will stop)

   Or have to quit and rejoin.

   sometimes the map rotation will start from beginning(a server reset or crash)

   Or you might pickup at same map

   

   

   So I thought it could have been anything!

   So I started taking mods out one by one..

   I have been using some of these mods for years in AA

   So i thought SH might not like them.

   I still am not sure though

   

   Do you have Elg's Admin pro in??

   I had to take it out(seems to work better now).

   I even did new installs and Location changes to see if it was a network or corruption issue.

   

   I am still not sure its any mod,I took out Admin Pro last weekend and have not played on it for more then

   10 minutes this week.

   But I noticed in my logs that it has not dumped players this week.

   

   But in short, I think its a Gameservers issue

   I have NEVER seen this before,Before GS.

   

   I have had the SH server with Gameservers since right befoe Xmas(got the Holiday Special)

   But its been doing the hanging thing since i got it

[twl_viper]

I dont run admin pro but i use some of the fixes like doornade and anti-shark. on this particular server I run mefy mods and some addon objectives.

[*Herr_Kruger]

STOP crashing servers Carl .. its not funny anymore

   

   ok, now seriously, I would like to help but i dont own a server for a couple of years and havent seen the error. At some point, what Carl says makes sene. (Cant believe i said that) wait it doesnt - I thought it was overflow when you posted the error vip but meh, i dont know now.