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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a way to limited the amount of time a bot
is in this mode to kick them?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=richardnharrison@btinternet.com
href="mailto:richardnharrison@btinternet.com">Richard Harrison</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mohaa@icculus.org
href="mailto:mohaa@icculus.org">mohaa@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mohaa] Automated bots
filling server</DIV>
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<DIV>Not sure if there is much you can do about this apart from look in your
logs for IP address's and ban them. I believe there exploiting something in
the game engine that allows a person to connect to a server (taking up a slot)
and then to authorise their CD-Key. However i think the authorising never
happens so they hang in a 999 state till the game eventual gives up and
disconnects them.</DIV>
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<DIV>There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago (maybe a couple of
months - time flys) with ryan saying that it would be very hard to
prevent.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>I think it would be best if you made a couple of slots private so you
can always get in if this happens again start doing some bans.</DIV>
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<DIV>Not sure what the url is for the search facility on this list, but it
might be worth looking for it and seeing what was actual said in the
discussion a while back as their might have been a better way to firefight the
situation. i dont think there is a solution to it yet.</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>"Nathan P." <natedog550@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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have a friend who has a clan and their server is being slammed
with<BR>automated bots. They fill the server and their pings are 999. The
peeps<BR>that are doing this to them are from the mygot clan. These guys go
around<BR>doing this stuff all the time - they don't play the games they
just crash<BR>servers lol.<BR><BR>Neways....anyone have any ideas? They are
patched to the latest mohaa linux<BR>server builds. I thought about trying
to right a script to counteract this<BR>some how using tcp queries to check
for this but haven't gotten around to it<BR>- that may not even be possible.
<BR><BR>These guys are nailing them big time and no one can play on their
server.<BR><BR>Any help would be greatly
appreciated.<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR><BR>--<BR>NateDog<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>