The real problema is the nosteam hack that allows the punks to come back with new steam ids ad infinitum.
If they payed for each one of them, I'd be more than happy to ban all of them and it wouldn't bother me. What bothers me is that I can't rely on something that always worked before (banning by wonid/steamid) and is suposed to be the best method of ban, by far. On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:13 -0600, hondaman wrote: > If you are paying attention to the origin of this thread, the reason for > this script is that banned users are returning again and again with a > different steamid on some peoples servers. So the likelyhood of "banned > user returning to your server in a future with the same IP he was banned > before." is 100% for some people. Including ours. > > > PiTaGoRaS wrote: > > >This chance is as remote as the chance of the banned user returning to your > >server in a future with the same IP he was banned before. You are more > >likely banning legit users trying to connect with such bad luck to have one > >of this IP's instead of the original cheater. > > > >Temporal banning should be used in case of dynamic IP addresses, not > >permanent. One day would be fine for example. > > > >-- > >PiTaGoRaS > > > >hondaman escribió (Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:28:36 -0600): > > > > > >> The chances of two people, both with a legit steam id, and both > >> happening to play on your server with the same ip due to dynamic > >> ips is so remote, I for one would gladly ban the one in a million > >> "innocent" to catch the other ban evaders. Hence, the script. > >> > >> Marcelo de Paula Bezerra wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:52 -0600, hondaman wrote: > >>> ... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> The above is a cool little script that will catch the ban > >>>> evadors and output it nicely. You will have to cat > >>>> /path/to/server1/banned_user.cfg > >>>> /path/to/server2/banned_user.cfg | sort | uniq > > >>>> masterbanlist.cfg to get yourself a "masterbanlist" ln -s all > >>>> your logs into a common dir, then run this script. It will > >>>> catch those bastards once and for all. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> No it really won't, since most people arround here do not have a > >>> fixed ip address and I see no point banning a ip that a legit > >>> user might use. > >>> > >>> I'd rather see a working steamid system where every one has paid > >>> for the game and will regret being banned. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Marcelo de Paula Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >>> archives, please visit: > >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >> archives, please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >> > >> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >please visit: > >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- Marcelo de Paula Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
