evan1715 wrote:herro, gamall. haven't spoken in many moons.
Hello;
I haven't even
thought of JKA in just as many moons, and don't have access to the game, so I'll have to admit I don't know the exact answer to your question.
evan1715 wrote:is that ravensoft's attempt to prevent userinfo flood?if it is, why do mods add extra anti flood...
If it is an attempt to prevent userinfo flood, it is not quite enough, which is why mods may add more restrictive limitations. I remember getting it when changing my name, or changing sabers (with /saber in JA+), but not when changing saber colors very fast
It wouldn't be the first time Raven made dodgy attempts to prevent things. For instance, in order to prevent people from brute-forcing the RCon password of a server, they put a 0.5 second delay between requests. All other queries are ignored.
While this effectively hampers brute-forcing, it made the RCon DoS possible: all an attacker has to do is spamming a server with bogus RCon queries, and then the admin is incapable of using her own RCon, because every 0.5 second comes the bogus request, after which the server becomes deaf for another 0.5 sec etc.
So they successfully replaced a
very distant threat (brute-forcing is hardly a menace...) by a very effectively annoying one. (Luigi was able to make a patch for that)
But back on topic, I'm not sure this is really intended to be an anti-flood. There may be some technical reason behind it -- like the changes are stored in a fixed-size queue or something. I may look into it when I get back home, in about a month, but that issue hardly needs disturbing your sleep
