Strange occurance in wormnet

[Muzer]

When looking in #AG a few minutes ago, I noticed that a lot of people pinged out at once:

http://pastebin.com/d33d07480


This seems similar to a bug I discovered a few months ago, but that can't be the same one, since in the bug I discovered, it happened only if nobody joined the channel for exactly 3 minutes, and someone had joined 3 seconds ago.


Any ideas, CS?

[MihaiS]

Caught on tape :p

http://www.flash-bug.com/zMisc/pingout.png

[Muzer]

Lol, I see you have the (banned) online snooper in the background :p

Also, which snooper is that? It looks incredibly intrusive with the notification bar pop-ups.

I do also have a log of the event, it's just easier posting a pastebin rather than a screenshot.


EDIT: I just had a look, it seems there's been lots of pingouts (none as big as that one however) recently. This calls for an investigation.

It could be Online Snooper's constant rejoin attempts is DoSing WormNet.

[MihaiS]

I'm using Lookias' Wheat Snooper and you can set the notifications ballon's height. And that's a screenshot of my laptop's desktop... I don't work/play on it... I keep servers on it, I use it for chatting, hosting worms games (via VirtualBox- HostingWhore), browsing and stuff, so a high notifications area is not a problem, and, as I already said, it can be disabled or reduced to one row.

[GreeN]

This mass ping-out problem has been occurring on WN for a long while now, definitely way before that snooper ever got banned

And I very much doubt that the reconnect function would be vigorous enough to cause any kid of DoS attack

[doben]

green seems always to be so serious in here - i dont get it xD

[GreeN]

You know me, Dobey! My middle name is serious xD