[Freeciv-Dev] Re: DoS attack server with allowconnect (PR#1139)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:26:29AM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:26:21PM -0700, Reinier Post wrote:
> > 
> > What I did was add a command /fix that allows options to be fixed
> > at runtime.  This is experimental.  The nice thing is that things like
> > /set allowconnect, /set endyear and /set fogofwar can now be prevented,
> > but it may also introduce problems - you typically don't want someone
> > to type /fix timeout just before the game starts, for example.
> > 
> 
> So you could type:
> 
> set endyear 5000
> fix endyear

Yes.
 
> or:
> 
> aitoggle K
> fix aitoggle

No.  /aitoggle is a command, not a setting.  I must admit that the
distinction is blurred to all except those who don't know the
Freeciv command line "parser".
 
> You'll need a command:
> 
> nofix endyear

It's called 'free', but we can change the name.
 
> SCNR, just kidding!
> 
> Or have you restricted the use of the fix command to the time before
> game start? (Haven't read your patch.)

Yes.  /help fix doesn't tell you, perhaps it should.

> Christian

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Reinier