Server issue

[Doodman]

Originally Posted by Dave987

I fell off my chair here. THATS why it was down ? From Doodman helping? lol Way to go Doodman! -round of applause-

Seriously, we all appreciate the work you do, but c'mon ... how the hell? :P

Well, it's called a bug. And they DO tend to happen every once in a while, even for me.

If you want the details:
It was trying to combine multiple packets in to one packet, but the packet it was trying to add in was too big (even for a single packet), so it's didn't add it (or remove it from the queue, this is the bug) and therefore always saw data ready to send to the client, but couldn't send it. So it ended up sending an endless stream of "empty" combined packet to the client over and over. So, it was not really an DOS attack, but I can see why an ISP may think so.

On the other hand, it did used up 7GB of bandwidth pretty quickly, so that's pretty impressive.

Anyways, bug is now fixed and chatchannels are back up and running. Sorry for the havoc it caused everyone.