It’s not a secret that these days most server hacking attempts originate from chinese IP addresses. A lot of attempts originate from other countries like South Korea and Indonesia as well. It seems that in those countries (cyber-)law-enforcement and technological advancement don’t correlate. I agree that a server has to be able to sustain non-flooding attacks just by using a proper and secure server configuration. But what if almost all traffic from those countries are automated vulnerability scans? Read more »

While the installation of the Linux binary for the Unreal Tournament 3 Server is dead simple, some very brave game server administrators apparently chose to run the server with root permissions because there’s no useful server start script. This usually is an exceptionally bad idea for everything that opens ports on an Internet server.

Here’s a very simple start script that starts the UT3 server with a different account which you have to create using the groupadd/useradd command. In my case I’m using user game in group game. The script will sudo to this less powerful account and then start a botless deathmatch UT3 server. The server will continue to run after you close your shell. Well, at least until the server crashes, which it does frequently. In its current form the script has to be put into the ut3-dedicated/Binaries directory. Read more »