Recently we have been burning through new providers like Tony Abbott in a pair of budgie smugglers and we need yet another one.

The key problem is that the old Quake 3 engine is easily exploitable to "requeststatus" attacks via the ETDED.exe file on Windows machines. The upcoming money competition has been delayed because of this issue.

Zeta Servers Support Ticket Info:



So as you can see they had no choice but to take down our server.

The only option we have now is to find a provider or someone that host Enemy Territory on a linux machine. This is because the only known fix for the issue is to run a script that bans IPs that send statusrequests over a certain size.

More info here and the script info here.

If anyone can help with finding a suitable provider etc it would be greatly appreciated.

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you can ban IPs on windows as well you know, thats just lazy on zetas behalf. seeing how it uses **** all resources you could just rent a XEN based VPS for ET.

games going to die due to the lack of server providers lewl !

Game died due to lack of servers lewl

Ask oz of their providers, don't think they encounter this problem?

Na their server just lags to shit.

Surely CG have several VPS's???

Edit: Quick google search resulted in:: http://www.gohosting.com.au/serverhosting/dedicatedservers/



Edit2: Rent a server from GA.. They never had this problem.

Edited twice, last edited 28/8/11 - 1:42am.

Good idea IMO.
Oz were running an ETpro server with SLAC with no problems at all and probably still are (not that tzac shit though). May as well ask Black Racoon about using their provider IF NECESSARY. Last time I played on the CG server I thought it was ******* awesome and it was the best I had played in a while... Might have been another factor though

I'm fairly sure OZ have had the same problem a few times but yes they have already offered to help. GA don't provide FTP access (other admin tools are heavily restricted too) and are bloody expensive ($54 p/m for a 16 slot). GoHosting are for big business, looking at $100+ for a decent virtual server let alone dedicated).

Zeta were perfect if they only could be bothered to try and find a fix for their windows machines, it was $16 p/m for a 16 slot server and the performance was great (for the couple of games that were played on them).

Do the right thing and get a NZ server provider :p

With the exchange rate it'll be cheap and I'll get low ping... it's win/win ?!?

your ping is australian looking anyway, it'd probably increase with nz provider

i say someone write a letter to zeta about the windows shit, copy and paste it here and everyone post it

Biggz there's over $750 in prizes for an ET tournament and you're complaining about $54 p/m. I think CG can afford it chief.

Nope sorry I like to save people money, also GA can't provide what we need (ftp access, ettv etc.) so they are not an option anyway.

Have you bothered to contact GA? I'm sure Steve (Freewheelin) would be more than happy to get it working for you.

Pm pumpin I heard he does quality server hosting !

you think freewheelin does anything but get shit bowl hair cuts... thats cute