greeting message: huh?

Flauschkatze - Heavens Tear
Flauschkatze - Heavens Tear Posts: 998 Arc User
edited August 2009 in Support Desk
I got this today o.o strange....
I know that my sql is some kind of... server thingy? as far as I know it's not installed on this pc.
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  • Drazo - Dreamweaver
    Drazo - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,187 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It means the web resource it fetches it from can't connect to the MySQL database, either they edited the resource file (looks like HTML with embedded PHP) and made a boo-boo or the database account/permissions has changed.

    EDIT: It's no fault on our side at all.
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  • darthpanda16
    darthpanda16 Posts: 9,471 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Please read the info here: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=741691&postcount=4
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  • TameThat - Sanctuary
    TameThat - Sanctuary Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    <?php
    error_reporting(0);
    ?>

    Is it me or they are showing exactly whats the server IP and what's the username used ... IMO this is not a too too good idea to have any of this information being display, since it can help a lot people to brute force the database password.
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  • Drazo - Dreamweaver
    Drazo - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,187 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    TameThat - Sanctuary wrote: »
    <?php
    error_reporting(0);
    ?>

    Is it me or they are showing exactly whats the server IP and what's the username used ... IMO this is not a too too good idea to have any of this information being display, since it can help a lot people to brute force the database password.

    Unless they have restricted MySQL logins to just that server (the server the file resides on), which all professional and semi-professional companies should do. And that's not including firewalls and whatever else in the way first....
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  • Flauschkatze - Heavens Tear
    Flauschkatze - Heavens Tear Posts: 998 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    darthpanda16 wrote: »
    Please read the info here: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=741691&postcount=4

    everything checked.

    it didn't happen another time anyway, but maybe that's something pwi should/would like to know, no idea^^
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  • darthpanda16
    darthpanda16 Posts: 9,471 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Try turning off all of your networking hardware and your PC for a few minutes.

    Then turn everything back on.

    Did you try a Verify on the game launcher screen?
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  • Drazo - Dreamweaver
    Drazo - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,187 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    So it's never happened more than once?

    I'm thinking it was just a very brief issue server sided....I don't know how many players launch PWI in a given time and would have seen that, but it could have lasted no more than a couple of minutes and only a small portion of players post on these forums and even fewer would actually care and have remembered to post about it.
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  • TameThat - Sanctuary
    TameThat - Sanctuary Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Drazo - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Unless they have restricted MySQL logins to just that server (the server the file resides on), which all professional and semi-professional companies should do. And that's not including firewalls and whatever else in the way first....

    My point was mainly that "all professional and semi-professional companies" should have error_reporting set to none on production website, to prevent any kind of information (that could lead to flaw) being display. I could also had point out that all the path of the file are being display too. PHP error can tell a lot about the way the script are working and it's not a too good thing to let everyone know how it exactly works.
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  • Drazo - Dreamweaver
    Drazo - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,187 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    So in other words, PWE has goofed up anyway. b:chuckle
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  • eatwithspoons
    eatwithspoons Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    we have it all resolved now. Thanks b:victory
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