Re: [hlds_linux] Protect L4D2 servers

2010-05-11 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
. And if you thing of using white listing IP ranges instead you will lock out some of the people you want to let in. Normally the geoip lists are incomplete. At least for europe. Frederic Breitwieser schrieb: Howdy Eka, The concepts and portions of the script are on my website, here: http

Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 server won't start

2010-05-10 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
More specifically, delete the .blob files which are in the .steam directory. They are what muck things up in this manner. -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Chad Bishop Sent: Monday, May 10,

Re: [hlds_linux] Protect L4D2 servers

2010-05-10 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
A bot is a software agent, daemon or script that runs autonomously and automatically. While this can be useful in a cluster of servers (working as one in a redundant fashion), moving busy daemons or services to less busy servers in real time, mostly they are used maliciously to continually hammer

Re: [hlds_linux] Protect L4D2 servers

2010-05-10 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Howdy Eka, The concepts and portions of the script are on my website, here: http://frederic.woodbridgedata.com/index.php?p=server-firewalling-country I'm in the process of (cough, slowly) rewriting it to use mysql instead of a bazillion text files, and eventually I intend to release it as an RPM

Re: [hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues.

2010-05-09 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Thank you again for all your help. I used memtest86+. The fact that it failed everything except one really old Compaq DL580 puzzled me. I find it hard to believe I have 37 defective servers and desktops. It even failed memory in a brand-new, just opened, Dell R210 with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Re: [hlds_linux] Protect L4D2 servers

2010-05-09 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
There are a lot of things you can do to tighten the doors against undesirable behavior and iptables, the linux firewall system included with all modern distributions is a great starting point. iptables has rate limiting capability for tcp and udp using the -limit and -limit-burst parameters.

Re: [hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues.

2010-05-08 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Cc2iscooL: Well, you do keep getting memory errors, I know you've said you've switched out sticks, but have you actually tried any sort of diagnostic program yet? Upon your suggestion, I can now say yes, I have. Using memtest86 off a boot floppy, I get a memory error right away, and it repeats

Re: [hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues.

2010-05-07 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Update: 1. Forced the i484 and i686 binaries to load with the same result. 2. The -verify_all option succeeded, ran it twice to be sure, also reinstalled several times. 3. I loaded two different distros, again with the same result. FC12 and Debian. I was thinking maybe it's the hardware, so I

[hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues.

2010-05-05 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
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