Harlin's pythonian server

Cruel dog · Post by **Cruel dog** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:55 am

Long time pythonian was down... Thats not the reason I am writing this. Someone (like before) keeps spamming (UNKNOWN) stuff on the server.. Long tome ago it was doing that too... So annoying! goes like this:
(UNKNOWN): 1001
(UNKNOWN): 1002.....
...
(UNKNOWN): 736213234...
So annoying! Anything can be done to stop that bug thing?

tadd · Post by **tadd** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:26 am

Cruel dog wrote:Long time pythonian was down... Thats not the reason I am writing this. Someone (like before) keeps spamming (UNKNOWN) stuff on the server.. Long tome ago it was doing that too... So annoying! goes like this:
(UNKNOWN): 1001
(UNKNOWN): 1002.....
...
(UNKNOWN): 736213234...
So annoying! Anything can be done to stop that bug thing?

The player is sending text in a flood before authentication is completed. This is fixed in a not-yet-released version of bzfs. A version I was given dated December cleared up this problem.

This issue has been discussed on the forum. Look for "Server Update for <unknown> type spam message" in the Help: Server Setup and Administration forum. The version I was given was one of many called 2.09.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:14 am

I am pretty sure what is happening is that the player is sending these messages before the server reads his/her token that prevents him/her from joining. I think it was mentioned that this bug fix is going to be fixed in the next stable release of BZFlag.
Correct me if I am wrong.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:25 am

It's a spam robot... mentioned somewhere or another around here in a previous topic. I think there is a fix or a plugin for it somewhere... but too tired to think of it.

Post by **blast** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:54 am

Update the server to 2.0.9 from SVN. This exploit has been fixed in the latest code for 2.0.x. You can get the v2_0branch code by following the directions on the wiki. There is also a Torblock plugin that would prevent Tor users from fully joining, if they elevate their attacks after the upgrade.

Cruel dog · Post by **Cruel dog** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:05 am

yeah, but that aint my server, its Harlin's server

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:10 am

Then don't bother yourself about it!

If you'd like it to go away send him a PM about it or just leave the problem to him.

Post by **blast** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:03 pm

Cruel dog wrote:yeah, but that aint my server, its Harlin's server

That was evident from the subject of the thread.

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Harlin's pythonian server

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