Indeed!<br><br clear="all"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Midnight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:midowns@gmail.com">midowns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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This is extremely hypocritical after all that slamming on MW2 that they
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DLinkOZ wrote:
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<pre>Almost. You could run the server, but only those in the GSP program could
run a ranked server and all the benefits that gave players.
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From: Christian Gerbrandt [<a href="mailto:gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk" target="_blank">mailto:gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk</a>]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:18 AM
To: 'Call of Duty server admin list.'
Subject: Re: [cod] help
I never paid much attention on the BF dedicated servers, but wasn't that the
case since BF2?
Only "approved" GSP can host BF servers?
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From: James Landi [<a href="mailto:jim@landi.net" target="_blank">mailto:jim@landi.net</a>]
Sent: 31 January 2010 15:03
To: Call of Duty server admin list.
Subject: Re: [cod] help
As far as I know EA/Dice are not taking on any more "Trusted" GSPs. I
guess they have enough.
Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com
Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows 2009. 2010
On 1/31/10 10:01 AM, Christian Gerbrandt wrote:
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<pre>The servers are not "fake". They are just not available for download.
You need to contact EA/Dice in order to be accepted for their Ded.
Server Program.
But the servers are also restricted in terms of what can be changed.
AFAIK no FTP access, ...
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From: Morpheus [<a href="mailto:morpheus@clantoc.org" target="_blank">mailto:morpheus@clantoc.org</a>]
Sent: 31 January 2010 09:56
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Subject: Re: [cod] help
Just a question regarding the "fake" dedicated server stuff that will
be available in BC2 : where will be located theses "servers" ?
I hope that at least they put some infrastructure in each major
country/zone the game is sold in, because if, as a french gamer, I
have to connect to an american server, what means at least 160ms ping,
it won't be smarter than the crappy P2Pish MW2.
PS : I'm not buying the game anyway, just as a sysadmin :D
Le 30/01/2010 22:38, Tyson a écrit :
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<pre>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
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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
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On 1/30/10 7:50 AM, Kjell Munkestam wrote:
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<pre>Is that confirmed?
All I know is that there will not be any ranked dedicated server
except
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<pre>from
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<pre>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
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<pre>we
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<pre>will not know until March.
At least it's rentable dedicated servers as compared to MW2 IW-NET
P2P fiasco.
~SgtBilko
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From: Tyson [<a href="mailto:twisted@twistedgamingservice.com" target="_blank">mailto:twisted@twistedgamingservice.com</a>]
Sent: den 30 januari 2010 01:07
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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
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<pre>went
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<pre>I'm pretty sure EA will take same route with BF3. Two very
anticipated
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<pre>games
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<pre>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
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<pre>community's
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<pre>to the 8 or 16 that will fit on their crappy listen servers.
Tyson
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From: Charles Goldsmith [<a href="mailto:wokka@justfamily.org" target="_blank">mailto:wokka@justfamily.org</a>]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:48 PM
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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.
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Tyson<a href="mailto:twisted@twistedgamingservice.com" target="_blank"><twisted@twistedgamingservice.com></a>
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<pre>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
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From: <a href="mailto:david.lauriou@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">david.lauriou@wanadoo.fr</a> [<a href="mailto:david.lauriou@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">mailto:david.lauriou@wanadoo.fr</a>]
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Subject: Re: [cod] help
where can i find BFBC2 dedicated server ?
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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [cod] help
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<pre>All you need is right here
<a href="http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11777" target="_blank">http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11777</a>.
Met vriendelijke groet,
With kind regards,
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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.
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From: "pet"<a href="mailto:games@maxrate.pl" target="_blank"><games@maxrate.pl></a>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:53 AM
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Subject: [cod] help
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<pre>Hi all members
I have problems with crazy hackers which hacks my servers all the
time.
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<pre>I
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<pre>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
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<pre>and
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<pre>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
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<pre>suckers
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<pre>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
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<pre><a href="http://forum.i3d.net/call-duty-series-newsletter/48158-cod-cod-ww-102" target="_blank">http://forum.i3d.net/call-duty-series-newsletter/48158-cod-cod-ww-102</a>
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<pre>-command-exploit.html
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<pre>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
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