that extension won't help for this specific attack since it is made to filter only null entity packets and cache A2S_INFO requests. the only solution is to use a firewall or modify that extension to include this case
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM, DontWannaName! <[email protected]>wrote: > Install this http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=114787 > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Marek Sieradzki > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Servers of my HL2 (Orange Box) mod receive these UDP packets: > > FFFFFFFF71303030303030303030303030303000 (20 bytes long) with spoofed > > source IP. Linux servers can easily firewall these but it's harder on > > Windows. I also don't know if attacker can use a different packet data > > to achieve the same result. > > Result of the attack is server disappearing from Steam browser, ticks > > run per second go down to ~1 and CPU use skyrockets. As far as I know > > attacked server doesn't receive a lot of these packets. Something > > around 100 per second. > > > > I'm sending it to hlds_linux because I'm not registered on hlds list. :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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

