<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>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I 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>