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Mirael D'Kana - Student  |
Can anyone enlighten me and explain why servers r running on limited slot numbers now ? WP on 11 instead of 16, american ones on 27 instead of 32... Does it have to do with server instability when many users r on ? High bandwidth usage ? If so, changin server max rate settings should do the trick. _______________ -The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.(John Milton)- Mirael D'Kana, daughter and Padawan to Jaina D'Kana, proud mastress to Crash D'Kana and Saige D'Kana. Winner of Henkes' Pure Pwnage Award. Proud owner of Jaina's 999th post. Proud user of Odan Wei's JA Logo in my avatar. -SWG random quote: People use hammers to knock holes in the wall. I use a hammer to knock Bounty Hunters' teeth out.- This post was edited by Mirael D'Kana on Nov 28 2004 04:00pm. |
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monkai - Student |
hehe i was wondering about that too  |
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dad - Student |
Hey Buzz if we are aloud to train I want to fight with you please. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Buzz: it is. But what good is that if the bot is net split as one of e.g. 3 people? The rest of the channel would still be locked. And I'd advice people not to overestimate the "threat" of a flood join... they happen very rarely, extra rarely when the channel is less than ~200 people. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Is it possible for the bot to detect that a netsplit has occured and it will not adjust the limit for a minimum of 10 minutes after the split occurred _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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doobie - Jedi Council 
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the way we fixed the last one was for me to sneak into the channel through a backdoor and change the L limit manually... so it's not a TOTAL disaster if Tido's smelly bot gets booted, just a minor one _______________ -Academy Leader/Dictator/Defeater of DJ Sith and JACen Solo in the JAK+ Tournament -I do think it (the JA) will help convert dozens, maybe hundreds, to the dork nation... --me |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Wow...ive never seen a botnet flood before. But what can i say...im an IRC newb =/ Sounds pretty bad though... _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Tido - Student 
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I'm working on a solution to that issue with the bot. It shouldn't happen unless we get massive netsplits like we did that night. Each IRC channel can have a limit (l) to the # of clients in a channel. The bot takes the number of people in the channel and adds 5 to that number, then uses that to set the limit. It updates on every 2 joins or parts. The reason we have this is to prevent a type of attack where massive numbers of floodbots enter your channel (and I'm talking between dozens and hundreds), and start to flood out your channel. The bot protects us from that because now only 5 people can join the channel at any one instant. Here is when the code comes back to haunt us: Lets say we have 60 people in our channel, and then there is a netsplit. Now lets say the channel has only 20 people in it. After a short while the bot will set the l to 25. Then lets say the bot gets disconnected in a netsplit. Now the bot is no longer there to regulate the l value, and the channel is stuck at 25. It can't be fixed until the bot returns - which it can't, its locked out by its own l value. The other problem if say 40 people get split, and then the bot sets a new l, those 40 people can't just rejoin. They will have to wait for the l value to slowly correct itself. I'm trying to find a solution to this problem. One of the ideas is to have an l override - this is where an admin can enter a command that sets a manual l #, or turn l off completely. The problem with this is it's pointless if the bot got split from the channel. The other idea is to not have l at all in our channel, and instead have some kind of 'emergency lockdown mode'. If this is enabled, the bot will lock out the channel from new people entering, moderate the channel (mute all non-voiced users), and voice all admins. The problem with this is that if we do get a botnet flood, some admin has to be quick enough to catch it happening and enable the lockdown. So I'm not really sure if I'm crazy about that idea either. This comment was edited by Tido on Nov 28 2004 09:10pm. |
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Orion - Retired 
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IRC is fine the bot sets limits to stop join/part flood from botnetworks and such. We only had a limit problem when quakenet had a hick up and the bot wasn't in the channel to fix limits. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Mirael D'Kana - Student 
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thx Virtue sir. _______________ -The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.(John Milton)- Mirael D'Kana, daughter and Padawan to Jaina D'Kana, proud mastress to Crash D'Kana and Saige D'Kana. Winner of Henkes' Pure Pwnage Award. Proud owner of Jaina's 999th post. Proud user of Odan Wei's JA Logo in my avatar. -SWG random quote: People use hammers to knock holes in the wall. I use a hammer to knock Bounty Hunters' teeth out.- |
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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Each Server has five private slots by default, so the JA Home server will read 27(32) and stuff. I do plan on changing this though, all I need to do is add one cvar to the cfg file. - Virtue.  _______________ Academy Architect |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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talking about limited slots... is it possible to increase the maximum in IRC? as now it gets full quite ofter in the evenings  _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge  Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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The servers config files were cleaned, so things may have messed up a little. |
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