I wonder if this is related to the DDoS attacks on SRCDS that was discussed earlier on this mailinglist. If so, one can limit the number of UDP packets per second to a few hundred with iptables (I use 200 myself...another guy on this mailinglist said he has it set to 100)
G. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Guy Watkins <[email protected]>wrote: > I have this with CSS. Server stops responding. The console does not > respond. The Linux server is fine. Top shows te server at or near 100% > CPU. After about 30-90 seconds it just resumes as if nothing was wrong. > Most of the time the players timeout from the client side. > > I only see this once every few weeks. So I never really cared. > > } -----Original Message----- > } From: [email protected] [mailto:hlds_linux- > } [email protected]] On Behalf Of f7 f0rkz > } Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:45 PM > } To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > } Subject: [hlds_linux] Team Fortress 2 | Random server crashes > } > } For the past week or so one of our 32 player servers has randomly dropped > } all connections. During the outage, the server console locks up. We run > } the server in screen, but I do not believe this to be the issue. > } > } Is anyone else having trouble with their server randomly locking up? > } > } What is even weirder is the server restarts itself. Its like it just > } magically resumes operation. > } > } One thing I thought it could be is DNS resolvers because this has > happened > } in the past where the host was reloading bind to add zones and the server > } locks up. I checked my resolv.conf and I am using google's opendns > } resolvers as well as bind on the local box. In case bind is the issue on > } the local box I removed it from resolv.conf. > } > } Just want to know if anyone else is having this issue. > } > } -f0rkz > } _______________________________________________ > } To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > } please visit: > } http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
