[cod] help

Tyson twisted at twistedgamingservice.com
Sat Jan 30 16:38:49 EST 2010 

I was referring to BF3 not BC2. BF3 will not have Linux servers. EA is going
Windows only on all future releases.

If they get away with what they are doing for BC2, they will certainly do it
with BF3 and all that will be available is overpriced Windows based Ranked
servers.

They will force us into artificial markets just like they do on Consoles.
Future games will not be clan/community friendly at all.

Tyson

-----Original Message-----
From: James Landi [mailto:jim at landi.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:05 AM
To: Call of Duty server admin list.
Subject: Re: [cod] help

As of today, Gordan Van Dyke from Dice/EA said there will be no public 
server files (ranked or unranked) as well as mod tools for BC2.

I think this game could have been a run away hit if these two options 
where in the box upon release.

Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com
Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows 2009. 2010




On 1/30/10 7:50 AM, Kjell Munkestam wrote:
> Is that confirmed?
>
> All I know is that there will not be any ranked dedicated server except
from
> legit game server providers. That is the same concept they had with BF2.
> However I've heard nothing about privately run unranked servers. I guess
we
> will not know until March.
>
> At least it's rentable dedicated servers as compared to MW2 IW-NET P2P
> fiasco.
>
> ~SgtBilko
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyson [mailto:twisted at twistedgamingservice.com]
> Sent: den 30 januari 2010 01:07
> To: 'Call of Duty server admin list.'
> Subject: Re: [cod] help
>
>
> I can't say where I got my info, but EA chest pounding about supporting
> Dedicated Serves is just that.
>
> I already know there will be no Linux version and with the route BFBC2
went
> I'm pretty sure EA will take same route with BF3. Two very anticipated
games
> did it, one succeeded already for the most part in the big wigs eyes. If
> BFBC2 scores anywhere what BF2 did in Sales you can bet EA will consider
> very hard taking same or more extreme route with BF3.
>
> I just simply will not be forced into the same artificial markets they
> created for Consoles to get more then the initial $50-60 dollars from the
> game.
>
> I want new games, but not at the cost of fragmenting our gaming
community's
> to the 8 or 16 that will fit on their crappy listen servers.
>
> Tyson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:48 PM
> To: Call of Duty server admin list.
> Subject: Re: [cod] help
>
> I'm with you Tyson, I'm on a personal boycott of any developers that are
> removing the very thing that made this genre big.
>
> Is Valve the only one that is going to keep supporting their community the
> right way?
>
> I hope that EA does BF3 right, but I don't have high hopes.
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Tyson<twisted at twistedgamingservice.com>
> wrote:
>    
>> You don't read the gaming sites much do you?
>>
>> There will be no public dedicated server, only select partners will
>> get access to the dedicated servers in the name of "Security".
>>
>> I canceled my preorder of this game also.
>>
>> Tyson
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: david.lauriou at wanadoo.fr [mailto:david.lauriou at wanadoo.fr]
>> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:23 PM
>> To: Call of Duty server admin list.
>> Subject: Re: [cod] help
>>
>> where can i find BFBC2 dedicated server ?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "River Hosting - Info"<info at riverhosting.nl>
>> To: "'Call of Duty server admin list.'"<cod at icculus.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cod] help
>>
>>
>>      
>>> All you need is right here
>>> http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11777.
>>>
>>> Met vriendelijke groet,
>>> With kind regards,
>>>
>>> Julian Maartens
>>> River Hosting
>>>
>>> info at riverhosting.nl
>>> http://www.riverhosting.nl
>>>
>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>> Van: Bong-Master [mailto:bong-master at thesilverdagger.co.uk]
>>> Verzonden: maandag 25 januari 2010 12:03
>>> Aan: Call of Duty server admin list.
>>> Onderwerp: Re: [cod] help
>>>
>>> My computer illiterate wife said 1.3 will fix this.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "pet"<games at maxrate.pl>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:53 AM
>>> To: "Call of Duty server admin list."<cod at icculus.org>
>>> Subject: [cod] help
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi all members
>>>>
>>>> I have problems with crazy hackers which hacks my servers all the
>>>> time.
>>>>          
> I
>    
>>>> mean call of duty 2 1.0. I know that You will say, change into 1.3,
>>>> but this is not the solution. Couple times a day somebody hacks my
>>>> server
>>>>          
> and
>    
>>>> its shutdown, after that I see in console "ERROR: Attempted to
>>>> overrun string in call to va()".  How can I secure my server against
>>>> this
>>>>          
> suckers
>    
>>>> which have nothing better to do with theirs empty brains. Please
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>>> Pet
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "va() is a function of the Quake 3 engine used to quickly build
>>>> strings using snprintf and a static destination buffer. Read more
>>>> on: : i3D.net Game Forums
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>        
>>      
>
http://forum.i3d.net/call-duty-series-newsletter/48158-cod-cod-ww-1024-bytes
>    
>>> -command-exploit.html
>>>        
>>>> If the generated string is longer than the available buffer the
>>>> server shows an "Attempted to overrun string in call to va()" error
>>>> and terminates. From Call of Duty 2 (and consequently) the size of
>>>> this buffer has been reduced from the original 32000 bytes to only
>>>> 1024 causing many problems to the admins.
>>>>
>>>> So in CoD5 an attacker which has joined the server can exploit this
>>>> vulnerability through the sending of a command longer than 1024
>>>> bytes causing the immediate termination of the server."
>>>>
>>>> I try it, and it works. I you send this command to the server, it
>>>> will
>>>> crash:
>>>>
>>>> cmd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> so
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