server is auto punting

[ReD DaWgg~DDE~]

Hi all...i am pasting a letter from Sneak Stalker & Shadow Stalker

I play now as Cheese Stalker in Stalkerville...our Stalkerville server in TFD has developed some issues that we can't seem to fix...could anyone lend us a hand?

thx
CheeseStalker

Hello

We have 3 computers, one is hosting a public game in TFD, and it has worked fine until now, all of the sudden it keeps autopunting everyone in the server.

After a few minutes when a player joins he gets autopunted, the serverscreen starts counting besides their names, after about 100 seconds the players die and gets autounted.

We have created a puntlog and they all get punted for "timestamp response not recieved" or "DItem z error".

We have tryed everything we can think off, and read every topic about this in several forums, but nothing have worked so far.

We have reformatted the entire computer, reinstalled Win XP, reinstalled the game, got the latest update for the game, only used default settings, not running any anti virus nor firewall, and put the computer in DMZ on the router, even used a switch instead of the router. Nothing changed.

After the reinstall of the game, we tryed to host with stock maps, and it worked fine, so we thought it was our custom maps that were messed up. But other people are able to host our custom maps without any problems.

Now all 3 of our computers are acting that way...autopunting players... None of them have ever done it before, all the computers have all the Win Updates, the latest drivers, and are virus free. The computers have different specs. So we doubt it has anything to do with that.

All of the 3 computers have been hosting the same maps and with the same settings for over a year, and has worked fine - until now.

Could you please tell us what is causing this problem, and how to fix it.

Hope to hear from you soon

Christian & Carina, Denmark

[.DareDevil.]

hmmm anyways there are viruses out there known as stealth viruses which are hard as hell to get rid of but im thinking i know WINDOWS XP isnt the best for gaming but it could be Does anyone else have access to the server by DEM Remote or Anything?You know that DEM Remote Program or Condas Server Manager if so if ya use those ya might wanna change the access password in case someone has figured a way to get in yalls server by that.Because my friend a while back on LW had someone get in his server controls and took control of his server. Anyways its just an idea also some programs might cause a coflict with the game any new programs ya downloaded?Dont know Spyware might be the case some spyware is bad and if so might wanna check on that too.

NovaHQ Member Chief or Steve(1 of ADMINs at NovaHQ) might be able to help you with this!!!!

Just go to one of there profiles and email them or pm, them if they dont see this

Steves Profile http://www.novahq.net/forum/member.p...er&forumid=110

Chiefs Profile http://www.novahq.net/forum/member.p...ster&forumid=7

[ReD DaWgg~DDE~]

thank you very much for your help bro...we will contact them asap!

[Genocidal~V*D~]

wondering if this is on maps you been runnin or maps youve just started runnin because ive made 2 maps since playin bhd that have had the punt bug and 2 that were sent to me by another member of the squad which had this prob 2

1 we were able to fix by removing the water in the map and another 1 by adding more spawn points per side

hopefully this will help .

[ReD DaWgg~DDE~]

very cool...thx for the ideas...

this was on maps that had been running for awhile...then suddenly the problem started...

i will let sneak & shadow know what you guys did and we'll try those things too...


they seem to have solved the problem for now...they are not even sure what did it...but if it starts up again then we will try to log which maps it is doing it on and repair those maps...


thx again Gen!

[ReD DaWgg~DDE~]

Hi Dan
We've finally fixed the server, could you please post the below in the forum where you made a thread to get help, so others with the same problem can try this solution too?
And please feel free to correct all of my misspellings lol
Ty so much

Our router log showed we recieved "ping of death" each time the server autopunted players.

It turned out to be the router default settings. And since we don't know much about these settings we left them on the default, only changed the ones we knew what to do with lol.
But in our router, in "Remote management" these setting were enabled by default:
"UDNP", "PPTP", "IPSec" and "IDENT"
We disabled all of them.

(There were also these settings:
"HTTP", "Allow to ping WAN port" and "Gaming mode"
But these settings were disabled by default.)

Since we have changed these settings the router hasn't recieved any "ping of deaths" and the server has not autopunted at all.