[cod] Query limiting...

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sheepa" <sheepa at sheepa.org>
To: "Call of Duty server admin list." <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [cod] Query limiting...


> So the idea is to get call of duty server to send enough traffic to a 
> specific (spoofed) address to bring him down?

Correct.

> What about the server itself?

Unfortunately is very hard, if not impossible, to prevent the server
from suffering if the attacker has a good amount of bandwidth, without
redesigning the query protocol to add in an initial handshake.

    Regards
    Steve


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