Bugtraq: Re: dos on quake1 servers

[Lance Vavricka <lancev () INTERTEX NET>]

Didn't know that, does anyone know of a fix for this?  This appears to
work on all dedicated server binaries.  There servers I run havn't been
hit by this but I've noticed 2 in particular that keep going down
frequently.

Lance

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, alex medvedev wrote:

> hallo,
>
> sorry if it is a known thing...
>
> running the following command on a quake1 server's ip address
>
> # nmap -sU -p 26000 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> in most cases will "crash" the quake1 server program.
> attempts to connect to or query it with qstat will result in "no
> response" message.
>
> # nmap --version --> nmap V. 2.3BETA14
>
> quake2 or quake3 servers were not tested
>
> bye,
>
> -alexm