On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:07 PM [GMT+1200=NZT], Eric (Deacon) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wow...how often does that happen? Maybe since it's never happened to > me, I didn't think about it. Your connection to your ISP can be > severed, reconnected, and for whatever reason assigned a new IP (talk > about a weird way to configure DHCP servers...did the guy switch NICs > all of a sudden?), and back in the game before you time out on the > server? > It happened to one of my teammates in a league match just last night :( It takes about 60 seconds to timeout from the server - on a DSL connection you can disconnect and reconnect much quicker than that. And in NZ at least, there is usually no lease time on IPs, ISPs always give you a new IP when you connect - and DSL here tends to be a bit flakey so disconnects are not altogether uncommon. In any case, banning somebody for trying to connect with a key that is already in use is a crazy idea. How can you tell which is the real owner of the key? You can't. -Simon _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
