ratbot

[Dick Fragswell]

Hi all, I would like to see what Q2 admins have to say about the 'ratbot' subject. I had someone come into my server, with mutilple reconnects before they got in.

Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest connected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.20 x86 Feb 4 1999 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest entered the game
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest: I have just entered the game!!
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest disconnected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.20 x86 Feb 4 1999 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest connected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.20 x86 Feb 4 1999 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest entered the game
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest: I have just entered the game!!
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest disconnected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.20 x86 Feb 4 1999 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest connected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.20 x86 Feb 4 1999 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 nada[KAT]: damien tryhing to get in with bot
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.21 x86 Mar 26 2002 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 Dropping DamienTheDest, client issued 'disconnect'.
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest connected
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest[xx.xx.xx.x:xxxxx]: protocol 34: "3.21 x86 Mar 26 2002 Win32 RELEASE"
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest entered the game
Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:08 DamienTheDest: I have just entered the game!!

See how the version number changed from 3.20 to 3.21? - I could just run a cvarban on the versions, but 99% of clients use 3.20 and I did ban the IP, but DSL IP's change all the time. This 'ratbot' can get past q2admin reconnect feature also. Anyone have any ideas? on a way to defend against this.

Thanks for your time
Fraggy

[Maurox?]

sv_force_reconnect [string]
Force an anti-proxy reconnect to this IP:PORT if set. Excludes private/LAN IPs and works much faster than other reconnect methods.

[R1CH]

You may also try addstuffcmd connect set lolprecache 1

Typo fixed now .

[shovel]

You may also try addstuffcmd connect set lolpreache 1

what does that do?

[R1CH]

Causes the ratbot to precache prematurely, usually causing a crash.