[cod] forget about IW2 and get back to work :)

[pet]

Sorry, wrong thinking. lam not going to remove  cod2 1.0 server from my 
offer, it would be a suicide  like for other game hosting companies in 
my country. Nearly 80% call of duty customers rents cod2 1.0 version. 
Above mentioned problems doesn't appear each day, but one time per 
month. Our cod2 1.0 community is very large. They do not play 1.0 
because of pirated clients, they do this because the 1.3 patch brings 
many unexpected add-ons/patches which makes the game-play very poor. The 
same issue was by counter strike 1.4, the aiming was beautiful and game 
was nearly perfect, there was no need to make some improvements, but 
unfortunately the new 1.6 patch made this game unplayable. If somebody 
is cheating on cod2 1.0 he can also cheat in further versions as well, 
cheaters are everywhere, it's up to You how to handle with them. 
Naturally cod2 1.3 is very good for clan battles etc., You have more 
tools to fight with the cheaters and pirated clients and this is a good 
site of this version and  punk buster implementation  as well. There are 
always good and bad sites. But as I mentioned before, I will not resign 
from cod2 1.0 or counter strike 1.4 as long as theirs communities still 
growing  up and there will bo more fans than any other FPS game on our 
market. Do not forget, we have a here some phenomenon,  how old this 
game is - we know it,  how much servers  are still on-line - we know it. 
There will be a lots of games which dies with natural  death, but cod2 
1.0 will be still alive :). For me it means more than game...
Bong-Master pisze:
>
> Tell your customers to update there game as you are updating the 
> servers :P Nice simple solution. pirated clients use 1.0. Pet Do the 
> good thing say Bye Bye  to you 1.0 Clients & support the game in the 
> way this mailing list dose. You personally are letting the side down 
> so to speak Simply by allowing pirated clients to use your services. 
> But then in a diffrent way who do you blame the client or the hoster 
> ?? My personal view is that i blame the hoster First then the client 
> Simply because if the hosted DID not offer this service the client 
> would not have a dedi server to play his pirated game on.
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "pet" <games at maxrate.pl>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:29 AM
> To: "Call of Duty server admin list." <cod at icculus.org>
> Subject: Re: [cod] forget about IW2 and get back to work :)
>
>> I have to find some solution, most of my customers order 1.0 version, 
>> is very popular.
>>
>>
>> escapedturkey pisze:
>>> People run 1.0 to support pirated clients. Is this not true? If so, 
>>> well, our supporting and helping them gives IW justification for 
>>> dumping dedicated server support.
>>>
>>> pet wrote:
>>>> So :) I have some little problem, which is probably well known:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: Attempted to overrun string in call to va()
>>>>
>>>> yep, somebody has messed up on my cod 2 1.0 server
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "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 
>>>> http://forum.i3d.net/call-duty-series-newsletter/48158-cod-cod-ww-1024-bytes-command-exploit.html 
>>>>
>>>> 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 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
>>>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> so
>>>>
>>>> any solution ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> any help will be appreciated.
>>>>
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