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Re: UDP flood 28001-28003

From: greerga () ENTROPY MUC MUOHIO EDU (George)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:20:23 -0500


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

Current thread:

Re: UDP flood 28001-28003 Rainer Weikusat (Mar 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: UDP flood 28001-28003 Andrew Badr (Mar 08)
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    - Re: Strange RPC? service entries. Pavel Kankovsky (Mar 13)
  - Re: UDP flood 28001-28003 Ian A (Mar 09)
  - Re: UDP flood 28001-28003 George (Mar 09)
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