RCON/FTP Help

[halojango78]

It's on v1.2, and we would like to stay on 1.2, so we won't be patching it.

You said something about turning off "Map Voting". I believe we do have this off. We always have the vote option (where you can kick players, restart map, change map/Gamtype, etc.) turned off, because all too often it gets abused and never is used for its actual purpose. Perhaps I have voting off, but not map voting. This is what I have in my config:


// Allow Voting
// It is recommended if you have friendly fire on
// that you also enable voting so that players can kick team-killers.
set scr_allow_vote "0"
set g_allowvote "0"
set logfile "2"
set g_log "games_mp.log"
set g_logsync "0"
set sv_log_damage "0"

Is that what it needs to be set at, or is there a different command I need to put in the config to disable map voting?


P.S. Thank You to everyone who is helping me out. I've never had the quality of help in such a quick amount of time anywhere except on this website. You guys are truly the best, I can't tell you enough how thankful I am for your help :]

[Earliboy]

No, you are confusing va() with var. Over running the string buffer block va() is a well known Quake 3 exploit. There is a patch from Aluigi but it is only for COD2 1.3. There is no known fix for version 1.0 and 1.2. The only thing with those versions is to disable map vote.

Youre wrong
Kung just made one for 1.2
Its just released since years, i got it running and it works perfect (windows&linux).

[Tally]

I'm not sure how he crashed it. I found his youtube, and i know he uses a command he calls "death" to drop servers. all he does is types in console: /exec death

After he does it, the server goes off and says something like "Attempted to overrun string in call to va"

We have gameservers as our provider if that helps.

Sounds like he is using the well-known map vote exploit, where you can overrun the buffer which stores the complete map list. This crashes the server with the error: "attempted to overrun string in call to va()".

What version of COD2 are you running? If COD2 1.3 there is an unofficial patch for it here:

http://aluigi.altervista.org/patches/cod2vawo.lpatch

You need a program named Lame Patcher which can be downloaded here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Program...-Patcher.shtml

The procedures for patching are fairly straight forward:

1. you need to get your servers COD2 executable;
2. copy the cod2vawo.lpatch I linked to and paste it into a .txt file, and rename it cod2vawo.lpatch (this must change the file extension from .txt to .lpatch, so make sure you show file extensions for known file types);
3. put the lame patcher program, COD2 executable, and cod2vawo.lpatch file together in a folder of their own side by side, and open the lame patcher program and load cod2vawo.lpatch file into it,
4. follow the onscreen prompts, and it will spit out a patched executable at the other end.
5. Then, re-upload the newly patched executable to your server. They wont be able to over run the map vote buffer any more.

If you don't have 1.3, then the only thing you can do is turn off map voting.

EDIT -

If you struggle with the patcher, let me know and I'll do it for you.

NB: DO NOT attempt to use the patched COD2 executable as a client. It disables certain functionality. Only use it for a dedicated server.

[halojango78]

Thanks for your help everyone. It seems the person who dropped our servers has stopped, I think I successfully banned him (thanks to whoever told me to write the GUID in ban.txt, that helps me out in many ways). I'll talk to Leadership about Kung's CoD2, I'm sure if the servers continue to be dropped we will put that on.

Thanks for all your help guys! :]