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[Kingsize]

Doc Flabby any changes of getting a fix to these?
Suddenly sscentral.sscuservers.net has started to reject connections from Central.exe. I suppose SSCU side has changed something, because sscentral.trenchwars.org works as usual.

Code: Show/Hide ----------Log "Console" Opened 11/8/2024 7:01 AM---------- <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (ZoneListener): Starting... <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (ClientListener): Starting... <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (Central): Reloading Startup List... <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (Central): Loaded 0 zones from startup.txt <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (Stats): Starting Statistics Collection <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (Stats): Completed Statistics Collection <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (ZoneDownloader): Starting download... <I> 11/8/2024 7:01 AM (ZoneDownloader): Using Peer: sscentral.sscuservers.net SyncAck: Round Time: 47  Offset Time: 4294727172 Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index and count must refer to a location within the buffer. Parameter name: bytes   at System.Text.UTF8Encoding.GetString (System.Byte[] bytes, System.Int32 index, System.Int32 count) [0x00050] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at Subspace.Net2.Message.GetString (System.Int32 offset, System.Int32 length) [0x00012] in <b26db3a7cb1f4aa5a11ed9392f6cbc76>:0   at Central.ZoneDownloader.ProcessZoneList (Subspace.Net2.Message msg) [0x00048] in <ca57b003336a49b59fc9e4d4749150af>:0   at Central.ZoneDownloader.NetRun () [0x00091] in <ca57b003336a49b59fc9e4d4749150af>:0   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context (System.Object state) [0x00017] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state, System.Boolean preserveSyncCtx) [0x0008d] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state, System.Boolean preserveSyncCtx) [0x00000] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state) [0x00031] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart () [0x0000b] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0 [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index and count must refer to a location within the buffer. Parameter name: bytes   at System.Text.UTF8Encoding.GetString (System.Byte[] bytes, System.Int32 index, System.Int32 count) [0x00050] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at Subspace.Net2.Message.GetString (System.Int32 offset, System.Int32 length) [0x00012] in <b26db3a7cb1f4aa5a11ed9392f6cbc76>:0   at Central.ZoneDownloader.ProcessZoneList (Subspace.Net2.Message msg) [0x00048] in <ca57b003336a49b59fc9e4d4749150af>:0   at Central.ZoneDownloader.NetRun () [0x00091] in <ca57b003336a49b59fc9e4d4749150af>:0   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context (System.Object state) [0x00017] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state, System.Boolean preserveSyncCtx) [0x0008d] in <12b418a7818c4ca0893feeaaf67f1e7f>:0

...and no it's not DNS issue.

Code: Show/Hide host sscentral.sscuservers.net sscentral.sscuservers.net has address 217.146.72.218

On Windows same problem appears like this:

Code: Show/Hide ----------Log "Console" Opened 11/8/2024 8:03 AM---------- <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (ZoneListener): Starting... <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (ClientListener): Starting... <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (Central): Reloading Startup List... <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (Central): Loaded 0 zones from startup.txt <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (Stats): Starting Statistics Collection <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (Stats): Completed Statistics Collection <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (ZoneDownloader): Starting download... <I> 11/8/2024 8:03 AM (ZoneDownloader): Using Peer: sscentral.sscuservers.net SyncAck: Round Time: 71  Offset Time: 3476114130 Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index and count must refer to a location within the buffer. Parameter name: bytes    at System.Text.UTF8Encoding.GetString(Byte[] bytes, Int32 index, Int32 count)    at Subspace.Net2.Message.GetString(Int32 offset, Int32 length) in C:\subspace2\old\client\subspace2\net\Message.cs:line 278    at Central.ZoneDownloader.ProcessZoneList(Message msg) in C:\subspace2\Central\Central\ZoneDownloader.cs:line 169    at Central.ZoneDownloader.NetRun() in C:\subspace2\Central\Central\ZoneDownloader.cs:line 222    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Those file paths are yours I assume and refereeing to source?


More problematic thing nowadays is that someone is scamming the dirserver. One servers without a name and it's IP starts with 0 (0.173.212.195), meaning it's and another zone (mall Warzone) that has "8000+ players".

Code: Show/Hide <D> 11/8/2024 7:10 AM (ZoneListener): Updated Zone: <D> 11/8/2024 7:10 AM (ZoneListener): Updated Zone: mall Warzone, connected to Isome

Would it be possible to add a blacklist or certain checks to be done before accepting the zone to dirserver? At least I would like to see the IP addresses on log.txt, because I cannot even use firewall to block these IP's not because I do not know what to block.

If you have no longer interested in coding this, would it be possible to share the source code with me? I would just want to do something for the issue and carry on hosting the dirserver.

Btw, running using mono on Ubuntu 22.04 nowadays.

For now I made a bash script to watch the stats.txt file using inotifywait and removing the scam zone and zones with incorrect IP addresses. This resolves the issue with population stats, but it still advertises these faulty zones via dirserver itself and I would like to do something for that as well.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards
-Kingsize
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-Kingsize
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