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- 26 Mar 2014, 11:12
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: IP banning?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10396
Re: IP banning?
I am not sure if Windows firewall will be sufficient. That's a "personal firewall" which is good enough for basic protection of a desktop system. For a server you will probably need to look into a pro solution. Normally hosting providers can set up a firewall for you or they already have ...
- 25 Mar 2014, 17:10
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: IP banning?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10396
Re: IP banning?
Hi, it sounds pretty strange that a single client can spam the server so hard that he can stop the login process. Either the attacker is using lots and lots of connections (hundreds) or there's something else going on. I would investigate the problem at a lower level monitoring the network and, at ...
- 23 Mar 2014, 12:20
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: IP banning?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10396
IP banning?
As i said in my previous topic (http://www.smartfoxserver.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16987&p=73621#p73621) i had a few problems with a guy who sends load of XML packets that causes the server to crash, will basically players cannot login, so it's not much of a crash. This error spams lik...
- 23 Mar 2014, 12:17
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: SmartFox Server request spam?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9399
Re: SmartFox Server request spam?
Could someone please answer this? i need help..
- 20 Mar 2014, 17:29
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: SmartFox Server request spam?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9399
Re: SmartFox Server request spam?
Okay so i was logging the server and i got a new message, so now i'm 100% sure its a person sending XML packets, or whatever.
Here is the screenshot of the error
http://prntscr.com/32irno
Here is the screenshot of the error
http://prntscr.com/32irno
- 18 Mar 2014, 19:59
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: SmartFox Server request spam?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9399
Re: SmartFox Server request spam?
Could you inform me where i could find the log file? i'm new to this and i would be able to upload it on mediafire. And the server doesnt actually crash, it just doesnt let players come online, and the error sometimes appears directly and sometimes it takes times as in minutes, seconds or even hours...
- 17 Mar 2014, 17:57
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: SmartFox Server request spam?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9399
SmartFox Server request spam?
Hello, so i got this problem and i don't know why. The game worked perfectly with over 50 players playing with me for weeks until some days before this started happening, the server crashed and the log was spamming with the same error (screenshot provided below). I'm pretty sure this has nothing to ...
- 26 Dec 2013, 12:57
- Forum: SmartFoxServer 1.x Discussions and Help
- Topic: Protecting against packet spamming
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5656
Protecting against packet spamming
Hello, i'm really new to this and i have been stumbling on this huge problem. I have a simple multiplayer game running on a java extension with a AS client. Some people are spamming random packets with WPE Pro. I've managed to catch some of them and they look like this "<msg t='sys'><body actio...