<DIV>I think ryan mentioned this before and said that it would be very difficult to do due to the way that cd-key authentication works.</DIV>
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<DIV>i.e. a person has to connect to validate a key.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>I could be way off but i seem to recall that.</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>The Guvnor <guvnor@evildictators.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ive found out how people do this, and so far, there is nothing that can <BR>stop this.<BR><BR>Ryan, I will email you the dos program they used to do this so you can look <BR>at how to patch the current binaries against this.<BR><BR>ps. please make it 64bit compatible.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Kim<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR>Hi ryan et all,<BR><BR>im a little confused as to how the latest mohaa binaries fix the buffer <BR>overflow problem. Players are still able to occupy the server slots with <BR>fake names using the same ip all in the same minute. Look at the below:<BR><BR>8th aug 04<BR>21:18:14 Iamafake/81.156.111.91 has logged on to play<BR>21:18:14 fakeplayer/81.156.111.91 has logged on to play<BR>21:20:40 Iamafake/81.156.111.91 has logged on to play<BR>21:20:40 fakeplayer/81.156.111.91 has logged on to
play<BR>21:20:41 cantseeme/81.156.111.91 has logged on to play<BR><BR>9th aug 04<BR>16:01:47 Iamafake/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:48 fakeplayer/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:48 cantseeme/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:49 dontkickme/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:49 Iamhere/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:49 wearealot/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:50 kickme/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:57 fake/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:57 whoamI/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:58 whatamI/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:01:59 whatImustdo/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:02:00 Ihate/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:02:00 whoIhate/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:02:01 whatIhate/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:02:01 whyIhate/81.156.165.154 has logged on to play<BR>16:03:54 isthisaPoC/81.156.165.154 has logged
on to play<BR><BR>Is the latest binaries supposed to be able to 'stop' the problem or just <BR>'limit it' somehow? Whatever it is, the latest binaries dont seem to be <BR>stopping the problem, some servers have only have 12 players maximum and it <BR>takes just one goofball to take it out. The posted CI logs above are for a <BR>server that has the latest mohaa linux binaries.<BR><BR><BR>Kim<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>