I have been running our paid server for more than a month now. Never had any problems. But today afternoon the server started crashing in intervals of under 25 mins. I talked to my provider and we havent finished trouble shooting it but this is sure that no settings were changed in the server. We had some trouble with a couple of jerks who are known to ping the server and crash it. Well i am hoping that u guys have been around for ages and maybe u guys faced it at some point of time or maybe u know something about it to help me out. Am running a F4a Freeze rails server, Named: Elite freeze rails. 8.9.9.84 V1.30

Can any of u please help me out a lil over here? Thanks a lot.

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Let me look in my mind. hmmmm yes I got it!. Damn diffecult helping when you don't say what error you get when it crashes. You need to post the log part where it crashes, normally the server will log why it shutdown.

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Sry about that. Well i saw the logs myself but it didnt mention a reason for shutting down. This is how it shows up everytime it shuts down:

1066:23say: ^1{W@R}^7CH^133^7T^1@^7H: lol
1066:23say: ^1[^7Ai^1]^7B^1u^7L^13^7T^1^7: we pwn ya
1066:26ShutdownGame:
1066:26------------------------------------------------------------
1066:26------------------------------------------------------------


I hope this could make it clearer.

Well no error there.. Does your server provider keep a console log?? with no error message it's impossible to locate the error. It's more likely its your server provider messing up than F4A..

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Just saw the console log. Maybe this will help more:

broadcast: print "^1Red^7 team scores!\n"
Kill: 1022 2 22: <world> killed {^4A^7i^4}^7S^4h^7Y^4m^7I^4n by MOD_TRIGGER_HURT
broadcast: print "^1Red^7 team scores!\n"
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
say: ^7biLLy^1baNg: wait
^7biLLy^1baNg^7: wait
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
Info string length exceeded
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ERROR: Info_SetValueForKey: oversize infostring
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----- Server Shutdown -----
Sending heartbeat to master3.idsoftware.com
Sending heartbeat to master0.gamespy.com
Sending heartbeat to clanservers.net
Sending heartbeat to master.kali.net
Sending heartbeat to q3master.barrysworld.com:27950
Sending heartbeat to master3.idsoftware.com
Sending heartbeat to master0.gamespy.com
Sending heartbeat to clanservers.net
Sending heartbeat to master.kali.net
Sending heartbeat to q3master.barrysworld.com:27950
==== ShutdownGame ====
ShutdownGame:
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AAS shutdown.
Closed log botlib.log
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sounds like the chat crash exploit...

perhaps cb will pm you with a fix...

No its not chat crash cause i already have a fix for that. This is someone pinging the server and i was hoping a way to find a way to stop quake from crashing.

the crash exploit has nothing to do with ping, Info string is the string that holds player info, such as name, team etc. That is the one that crashes, only thing i can come up with is a player changed or connected with a way too long name. Though not sure if messages is actually temp stored in info string for parsing. CB would know more if his seen that error on H8 server..

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