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

Paul Richards noxis at clara.net
Tue Jan 21 08:27:02 EST 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: "Morten Striboldt" <morten at boomtown.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] DoS vulnerability in game servers (including BF1942)


>
> 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.
> >
>
>
>

Do you think a P4 2.4Ghz Single CPU will be able to run 2 Windows BF1942 24
slot servers?




More information about the Bf1942 mailing list