Don't even think the name has to have garbage characters, it would probably work equally well if the player was just connecting with a long name. Events are reliable, such as player_connect and player_disconnect. So repeatedly connecting and disconnecting within a second will result in a huge amount of events being distributed to all clients, and hence overflowing the reliable buffer. I can't imagine this being fixed shortly, without banning Steam IDs (you need a Steam auth ticket to connect to servers).
Kind regards, *Saul Rennison* On 9 November 2011 19:57, Ryan Stecker <[email protected]> wrote: > The issue is legitimate, it's caused by having a client with garbage > characters in their name connect and disconnect repeatedly. > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Herover <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Use old thread please. >> I believe people ended up with the conclusion: don't believe it, >> untill program released. >> >> 2011/11/9 Joe Brown <[email protected]>: >> > There seems to be a new program out there to boot everyone out of a >> server, >> > one of my servers was hit with it yesterday. I searched around Google >> for a >> > bit and came up with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9E7QipxFIA , >> which was >> > uploaded a few hours after my server was hit. Looking at the logs >> around the >> > time, I saw these lines repeated over x500: >> > >> > L 11/08/2011 - 19:44:26: "´_Ä1 >> > ;k¸µ”ï¤#ß×UÔͼÙpd|ôÈ>öGM·U<397><STEAM_0:1:11902529><>" connected, >> address >> > "215.112.144.210:7757" >> > L 11/08/2011 - 19:44:26: "´_Ä1 >> > ;k¸µ”ï¤#ß×UÔͼÙpd|ôÈ>öGM·U<397><STEAM_0:1:11902529><>" disconnected >> (reason >> > "") >> > L 11/08/2011 - 19:44:26: "Ør: d[ ˆu srëÝž½ßÖà²ÌN™û,Û >> > P!G'<398><STEAM_0:1:11902529><>" connected, address " >> 215.112.144.210:7757" >> > L 11/08/2011 - 19:44:26: "Ør: d[ ˆu srëÝž½ßÖà²ÌN™û,Û >> > P!G'<398><STEAM_0:1:11902529><>" disconnected (reason "") >> > L 11/08/2011 - 19:44:26: "ÓMW§ ”ŽQ‡ ¿ §y ø1ßq’ì ½†Š >> > C¤»&&<399><STEAM_0:1:11902529><>" connected, address " >> 215.112.144.210:7757" >> > >> > I was playing in my server at the time and right around the time of all >> the >> > connects and disconnects, everyone was kicked with "Client 0 overflowed >> > reliable buffer" >> > The kicker is the IP 215.112.144.210 is a DoD address so it must be a >> > spoofed packet. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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