nitro, on 11 January 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:
Sorry, but that's hardly a news post at the front page.
As of today, the server binaries you get from the official download page (
http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/ ) are exploitable as hell (I derived that from their compile stamp: somewhen in 2007 (!) ). I've no words for that.
Let me quote that text you refer to (and, please do not consider this is a criticism to you):
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These patches are unofficial and provided by the community, these are not supported by frozen sands. Use at your own risk!
Wt...?
This completely negates any kind of trust a server owner would need to put into it.
Reconsidering the rcon attack, this one is kind of minor in regards to monetary problems it can cause. It's still annoying.
But the DrDoS attack can create amounts of traffic so easily it's almost unprecedented. I had an account of over 200GB traffic just within merely 2 1/2 days; luckily I was called by phone quickly enough to take countermeasures (first one was to shut down servers the second I was informed about the problem).
IMHO there should be a dedicated officially supported communication channel for server owner. That's the least thing I'd consider professional.