East Coast, Stock Maps #4 Asking For Password?

[greedylou 0]

I just tried to access the server and it ask me for a password. I donate and that's pretty much the only TF2 server I play on. Is there a match or something I don't know about? If so I'd like to participate. lol

[Mana 3,867]

Valve failed to patch a certain (previously reported multiple times) DDOS vulnerability. We currently have 3 servers that are under attack by some shithead.

Valve uses UDP for server queries and UPD packets can can be faked, so with potentially unlimited IPs one can spam the A2S_INFO query until a SRCDS server becomes completely unresponsive (Doesn't take much). I have made a plugin to somewhat counteract the vulnerability which makes the server accessible, although laggy so in the meantime I have locked those servers until I can get something better worked out.

There's people complaining about this (yet again) on the valve mailing list:

http://forum.i3d.net/hlds-valve-windows-newsletter/67487-hlds-tf2-ddos-as2_info-attack.html

EDIT:

Valve attempted to fix this on the August 13th, 2009 update:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/2733/

Added response caching for some server queries to help reduce the CPU load from DOS attacks

But they have obviously failed.

[Zektro 0]

God today I've just been surrounded by this hacking BS.

Two friends were hacked by someone who claimed to be in 'Anonymous'.

People keep spamming my youtube with "WE'RE COMING FOR YOU! -Anonymous". Apparently that's something going around YouTube. People trying to scare you.

Just crap like that.

[greedylou 0]

Thanks for the response. It never amazes me how ignorant people can be. Good luck with that bro, hope to see the server up again soon

[Raynre Valence 0]

Ah, was wondering why my favorite servers suddenly turned exclusive...

Hope they come back soon, and please keep us updated if you could.

[Areola 0]

At first I thought there might me a match happening, so I checked the "guestlist" so to speak. Bot1-28 seemed to be idling. I would like to report them!

No but really... That really blows, and I hope this doesn't effect the population of my favorite server!

Keep us posted Mana!

[Mana 3,867]

The servers should be back and fine now .