Security Incidents: Re: UDP flood 28001-28003

[greerga () ENTROPY MUC MUOHIO EDU (George)]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrew Badr wrote:

> These ports are used by servers for the very popular online game "Starsiege:
> Tribes". They may have some other use, but not that I know of.
I don't run a Tribes server anywhere (nor does anything else on the
network), so is this possibly a bug in their server/client allowing network
flooding? They aren't huge packets, but when they come for hours, it makes
a difference.

-George Greer