Nemu's Stomping Ground was also targetted around this time. It sounds
like it may just be a generic DDoS someone was throwing around as all
the traffic was inbound. I'm going for some burgers (mmm...) but I'll
setup some packet monitoring when I get back to see whats going on if
it happens again.

- Neph

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Tony Paloma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The attack stopped right about when I sent that email, so I can't try
>  changing those. The CVARs right now and during the attack were at the
>  default. I will probably lower sv_max_queries_sec_global. It lasted about
>  5-10 minutes. It was happening on all three servers and continued even if I
>  restarted. If I changed the IP or port of the servers, everything was fine
>  which means the attacker was targeting those specific servers.
>
>  I didn't get the chance to try getting IP addresses.
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Grimm
>  Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:30 PM
>  To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
>
>
> Subject: Re: [hlds] New server attack/exploit?
>
>  Perhaps these commands may help you to test, if it's a query spam:
>
>  sv_max_queries_sec (default 3)
>   Maximum queries per second to respond to from a single IP address.
>
>  sv_max_queries_sec_global (default 60)
>   Maximum queries per second to respond to from anywhere.
>
>  Andreas
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Paloma
>  Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:12 AM
>  To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
>  Subject: [hlds] New server attack/exploit?
>
>  My TF2 server is currently under attack and is being brought to its knees.
>  The network graph shows lots of incoming data and the server is empty
>  running at 10.0fps. I think somebody is spamming queries or something, but
>  I'm not sure. Anybody know anything about this?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Tony Paloma
>
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