Constant crash

[tiddpd]

I just recently put my server on otservlist, and after about an hour of it beeing online it started crashing, everytime i turned it back on it would crash again. I have a suspicion that some player is crashing somehow.

My reason for the acussation is because I had the server online for 2 or 3 weeks before going public to 5 or 6 people that I know without it crashing once.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Saints Anathema]

go start>run>netstat

have a look for SYN SENT,

also lookup in google fortgaurd firewall, its a good way to monitor incoming packets like ACK SYN and UDP....

if its all coming from 1 IP, you can use peergaurdian, if your getting hit with a Botnet, of like 100, your pretty much fubar.

 

[tiddpd]

alright thanks ill give it a try

 

[tiddpd]

I dont see any ACK or SYN or UDP and it still happens sometimes

I watched the netstat while a couple crashes were in the happening

 

[Grehy]

Check out any big scripts you added or changed recently

 

[tiddpd]

ive checked all my recent script editing and im sure its not what Saints was talking about after watching the netstat, its frustrating because it happens so random and with no errors its a 1 in a million chance to figure out the culprit

 

[oto]

Look free ram of your server!

and put anticrash script on apache!

 

[Port]

It's not DDoS attacks.

Firstly, DDoS attacks does not make the server crash but maxes the bandwidth instead.

For an example, let's say that you have an amount of 5,000 GB Bandwidth in total and your server measures so called 'DDoS Attacks', now your bandwidth will be slowly filled until it reaches 0 which makes it impossible for players to be online in your server. However, the server will still be online.

Solution: If you are using a realmap, delete most of the water and see if it's getting better.

 

[tiddpd]

Look free ram of your server!

Whats this mean?

The server is still crashing (but not so often anymore). I've checked a lot of my scripts I've edited lately I haven't found anything wrong with them.

I Thought I had fixed it after replacing the hydra.xml because there were no crashes for 2 days after that. But today its crashed twice and it dazzles me, I have no clue to what is doing it...

 

[Rozinx]

If you ever change someone's vocation, be sure that mls are not high (for pallies, kngiht) nor skills (for mages)

It has been driving me crazy too, I couldn't find the bugged characters.
Coz it goes like this : player logs in, spellcast , crash.

 

[tiddpd]

what is too high for a knight/pally? the highest ml for a knight on my server is 12.

 

[Rozinx]

12 is ok.