[17496] in bugtraq
Re: dos on quake1 servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Vavricka)
Sat Nov 4 14:58:41 2000
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:24:08 -0600
Reply-To: Lance Vavricka <lancev@INTERTEX.NET>
From: Lance Vavricka <lancev@INTERTEX.NET>
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Didn't know that, does anyone know of a fix for this? This appears to
work on all dedicated server binaries. There servers I run havn't been
hit by this but I've noticed 2 in particular that keep going down
frequently.
Lance
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, alex medvedev wrote:
> hallo,
>
> sorry if it is a known thing...
>
> running the following command on a quake1 server's ip address
>
> # nmap -sU -p 26000 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> in most cases will "crash" the quake1 server program.
> attempts to connect to or query it with qstat will result in "no
> response" message.
>
> # nmap --version --> nmap V. 2.3BETA14
>
> quake2 or quake3 servers were not tested
>
> bye,
>
> -alexm
>
