[DontWannaName]

Big words Crimson

Yeah, I meant DAF, what does this do that it doesnt?

[devicenull]

Looking at the code, you don't really do anything windows-specific (as far as the socket code goes). Porting that to linux would be pretty simple

[Inflikted]

DAF doesn't protect from query flood on your gameport (i think? least it didnt for me lol). and source server doesn't have any flood protection what so ever so it craps out from the flood. this plugin caches your server info and sends it to the user, rather than letting the server itself deal with it. essentially routing your server queries through this extension rather than letting your source server handle it.

[recon0]

Originally Posted by devicenull Looking at the code, you don't really do anything windows-specific (as far as the socket code goes). Porting that to linux would be pretty simple

Exactly. I just need to get Cygwin installed here, and I'm a little busy.

Originally Posted by CrimsonGT Ive been working on the VSP all day/night and I think this is causing an issue. When running it in debug mode its spamming the console with NET_RecievePacket: UNKNOWN ERROR everytime the server is queried. Im going to look into it a little bit more tommorow and make sure its not causing any serious side effects. In the meantime its a great fix for anyone being attacked. I think the errors just happening due to the server waiting to get an incoming packet that never shows up. If I can get my current code working we can switch it away from winsock and it will work for linux and windows, but im waiting to hear back from DS on wether or not he will reverse engineer the struct I need

I didn't notice that when I was testing. It certainly makes sense though. When you return SOCKET_ERROR, the server assumes there was a network error, which is why that error appears (I think).

I'm guessing a debug version of the extension might do the same thing.

Good to hear. You'll also need to figure out how to extract the port from sockaddr. I *think* it involves passing a sockaddr_in casted to sockaddr * in to recvfrom with the size of sockaddr.

Originally Posted by Inflikted DAF doesn't protect from query flood on your gameport (i think? least it didnt for me lol). and source server doesn't have any flood protection what so ever so it craps out from the flood. this plugin caches your server info and sends it to the user, rather than letting the server itself deal with it. essentially routing your server queries through this extension rather than letting your source server handle it.

Pretty much. The server has no part in responding to queries when this extension is loaded.

[devicenull]

Originally Posted by recon0 I didn't notice that when I was testing. It certainly makes sense though. When you return SOCKET_ERROR, the server assumes there was a network error, which is why that error appears (I think). I'm guessing a debug version of the extension might do the same thing.

Try overwriting the beginning of the string with garbage (IE, not \xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF). The server drops any packets that aren't valid, without producing errors.

AFAIK, it's gathering all the info over and over again that causes the lag, not receiving the packets.

[recon0]

Originally Posted by devicenull Try overwriting the beginning of the string with garbage (IE, not \xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF). The server drops any packets that aren't valid, without producing errors. AFAIK, it's gathering all the info over and over again that causes the lag, not receiving the packets.

That's an interesting idea. The method I'm using now (setting the timeout flag and returning SOCKET_ERROR) doesn't produce any spam (I haven't tested the debug build for spam yet).

True, but if we allow the packet through, it will gather the info to produce a reply.

[devicenull]

Right, but it won't try to respond if the format of the packet is wrong

[recon0]

Originally Posted by devicenull Right, but it won't try to respond if the format of the packet is wrong

Yes I know. I prefer my method, since it's logical and seems to work correctly.

[DontWannaName]

Seems like this is starting to go mainstream.

[Kigen]

This would be best as a MM:S plugin so it gets loaded automatically.