[bf1942] DoS vulnerability in game servers (including BF1942)

[Morten Striboldt]

Yes it's a Windows 2k terminal server, running on a Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz,
with 1 GB ram.

Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Morten Striboldt - Game administrator
Boomtown.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Richards [mailto:noxis at clara.net] 
> Sent: 21. januar 2003 12:52
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] DoS vulnerability in game servers 
> (including BF1942)
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morten Striboldt" <morten at boomtown.net>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:20 AM
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] DoS vulnerability in game servers 
> (including BF1942)
> 
> 
> > That does not look like you have been exploited, it might 
> as well been 
> > normal gameplay. BF consumes a great deal of bandwidth.
> >
> > With 2 x 40 players on one of our servers, we use almost 10 
> Mbit. You 
> > need to take a look at the query trafic, to make sure you have been 
> > exploited, not the general outbound trafic.
> >
> > Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
> > Morten Striboldt - Game administrator
> > Boomtown.net
> 
> What hardware do you use to run 2x40 BF servers on one box? I 
> assume this is the Windows build?
> 
> Nox.
>