Server Down

It's 2:26 CST and the server is down/offline. Anybody know anything about this?

vyrus said something about him and some other person changing a file and then he went to sleep. That's all I know.

as you may know there are many security issues with tremulous ...
basically we need to go patch the tremfusion source with a security fix,
then get the new server client up

Has somebody exploited the server?

Atlantis wrote:

Has somebody exploited the server?

I've always thought that whenever the server crashed or restarted in mid game, that someone ddosed it or something. It seemed fishy when stuff wasn't even laggy.

might not be the case but it's going to take several patches to get the security fix on here

UPDATE:

we have been receiving a specific type of DOS attack, although one not specifically targeting us
see here: http://www.lemuria.org/security/application-drdos.html

summary:

Code:

The basic mechanism of a distributed reflection DOS attack, as outlined
in [[url=http://www.lemuria.org/security/application-drdos.html#gibson]gibson[/url]], consists of an attacker (possibly using zombies)
bouncing packets with a forged source IP address off a legitimate
server so that server, acting in good faith, sends reply packets to
the forged source IP, i.e. the victim.

for this reason the server has been brought down for the past few days by request of the hoster, we are
currently working on a solution to this problem, and the server should be back online later today if all
goes well

Server's up.

VM_ create on UI failed....this is the error message I get upon connecting. I connected to other servers just fine.

hang on ill go fix it

vyrus@ubuntu wrote:

hang on ill go fix it

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Goober wrote:

vyrus@ubuntu wrote:

hang on ill go fix it

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retirement to me means a house and a large work space I don't have to worry about.