[mohaa] server hijacking

[Anthony Quon]

Yep there are 'hacking' clans that will come around and will initially 
wallhack/aimbot a server to get a rise out of the server admins. Once the 
admins try and kick these users, they will come back with taughts and msg 
floods with their group website and etc and will eventually crash the 
server. From what I hear, there are 10+ ways of crashing or restarting a 
server...I'm not sure if they are just exagerating..but even if there aren't 
10+ ways..there is at least one way since they are able to do it. I couldn't 
find any traces in any log files since I don't normally turn logs up because 
of the performance hit it causes....if anyone has any information, that 
would be great.


Also, in regards to the map changes and etc in the initial post...are you 
sure you disabled voting? This is definitely one way where they can vote 
their way into changing a map. I have turned off voting for all my servers 
since it's kinda useless anyway.

Thanks,
ANthony


>From: <MOH at digitalnines.com>
>Reply-To: mohaa at icculus.org
>To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
>Subject: Re: [mohaa] server hijacking
>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:44:39 -0400
>
>I've also had players come in crashing some of our clients servers.  They 
>spam some msg's and crash the servers and leave.  Last time we got an ip 
>and ipchained him from the server.
>They seem to be spamming msg's (such as their site) or what not.  It 
>scrolls down and then the server crashes.
>Any ideas ?
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Shaun Green
>   To: mohaa at icculus.org
>   Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:11 AM
>   Subject: [mohaa] server hijacking
>
>
>   It has come to my attention that players on the server can continually 
>reload the map at will.  There is a command in the gamex86.dll that will 
>allow anyplayer to restart the map. [without rcon]  As us linux admins do 
>no use the gamex86.dll this needs patched on the linux ver.  A fix has been 
>made for Microshaft servers.  Please someone help as I had 3 different 
>people continually starting the map every 30 secs.
>
>   CDN

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