[cod] Server problems?

[Boco]

What is really disturbing me is that none of the most popular fansites
are posting this unofficial patch.  It seems that many servers are
constantly down, and I doubt that many of the server admins know how
to prevent the attack.


On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:58:18 -0400, Robert Mount <rmount at pobox.com> wrote:
> Well, for what it's worth, more than half my CoD windows server were crashed
> in the last 24 hours.  Some, multiple times.  I applied the "test" patch on
> a single server at the request of the clan leader after their server crashed
> in the middle of a match.
> 
> Thanks to Ryan, my linux servers have been fine :-)
> 
> It would have been nice had Luigi not posted the executable code for the
> script.  Just the source would have been fine.  It would have kept the
> script kiddies away.
> 
> --Rob
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Kuhn" <bryan at infinityward.com>
> To: <cod at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [cod] Server problems?
> 
> > It's in the works as far as I know. It's a slow process. I've been trying.
> >
> > Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 7:06:16 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> >> An official win32 release is required. 95% of people will not apply
> >> some random patch from some random person ( nothing personal
> >> luigi if ur listening :P ) just these things need to be released
> >> properly.
> >> Bryan can you please expedite this ASAP.
> >
> >>       Steve / K
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Boco" <loneboco at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >>> It is because Luigi released information on his exploit that will
> >>> crash any unpatched server.  I think the Win32 and Linux patches need
> >>> to be publicized to people.  If they aren't, servers are just gonna
> >>> keep crashing.
> >
> >
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