Its should make a difference between a admin/player. Where the admin (one with rcon access for instance) is allowed to spam it. To fix the problem by denying all aint a good solution..
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ics Sent: zondag 3 oktober 2010 12:59 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] status not working 100% Status command (and i suspect also ping too) are limited on purpose. Valve employee or then it was sub contractor for CS Source (Hidden Path Entertainment) stated this on the forums but gave no reason. It is known exploit and players could spam these 2 commands on their client to make servers lag. -ics 3.10.2010 13:25, Eric Riemers kirjoitti: > If it was anti spam, one would think that valve introduces some cvar > to set the nr of query's to it. > For now I consider it to be a bug though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake > Eisenman > Sent: zondag 3 oktober 2010 5:59 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] status not working 100% > > Been a problem for some time, discussed on the Windows list. > > I think it's some anti-spam thing that limited queries to one per X seconds. > > TehZomB > W: www.tehzomb.us > E: [email protected] > > On 10/2/2010 11:55 PM, doc wrote: >> I actually just tried this out myself - seems to not like when you >> give it status in quick succession, this _does_ break a few things >> (such as using SRCDS.py to query the server multiple times). >> >> I don't think it was doing this before. >> >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Eric Riemers<[email protected]> wrote: >>> When i have my console open, typing "status" does not always give me >>> a reply .. only it takes 3 to 4 time before it works sometimes. >>> This issue was out there before and I thought they would fix it but >>> it seems not. >>> >>> Its random too, status, status, >>> status(work),status,status(work)status,status,status,etc,etc >>> >>> Anybody knows if valve is aware? >>> >>> Eric >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
