If you really want to go full out and fix this issue, why not just ban the host that provides these VPNs. I'm sure you can figure out a way to find that. Email me if you want more detail on this. I can cook something up for you.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Steam Family Sharing Exploit is still a vivid problem CS:S, as it takes > roughly 90 seconds to connect to a new VPN Server, create a new Steam > account, and rejoin. I've re-banned the same griefer about 7 times now in > the last 19 minutes; they're pretty persistent. Please help everyone using > your products protect ourselves against this new `feature`. > > Thanks, > Kyle. > > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.l...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Today, we're seeing a ton of banned, griefing players using VPNs and > > throw-away Steam accounts to bypass server bans. The problem already > seems > > to be pretty widespread in CS:S. Considering this is the first weekend > > where the beta was opened up, it's only going to get worse. I'm sure this > > isn't isolated to CS:S, or my servers. There are many others running > > community servers, some probably not even using Source that are impacted > by > > this. The native Steam Exploit seems to be getting abused quite heavily. > > > > The theoretical is now the present, > > Kyle. > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Jesse Oak <wazanato...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Every game copy should have an ID associated with it, this way an admin > >> can ban per copy of the game rather then player ID. It's bad enough > right > >> now in TF2 and some of the Source mod games where a griefer can just > >> quickly make a new account and reset their IP address having this start > to > >> happen in games like CSGO is going to be a major pain for admins. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Valentin G. <nextra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> Banning by IP is useless for many countries. And if cheaters abuse the > >>> family sharing they will certainly go to the "lengths" of making a > quick > >>> new dial-in to grab that new IP. > >>> > >>> I have already said this much on the Beta Forums, and fully agree with > >>> Kyle. This brings the TF2 F2P dilemma to every title. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Dominik Friedrichs <d...@forlix.org > >wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 2013/10/18 03:38, N-Gon wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I agree with Dog. > >>>>> However, I would also like to note that with SourceMod you could ban > >>>>> the > >>>>> users by IP. Sure they can change it, but most of the trolls are > either > >>>>> too stupid to figure out how or too stupid to figure out how to do it > >>>>> quickly. Meaning you'd see the "repeat offender" now and then, but > not > >>>>> enough to be too much of a nuisance. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'd like to note that for broadband providers in my area it is quite > >>>> common to hand out a different IP on every dial in, while a > connection with > >>>> that same IP can be kept alive for 24 hours at maximum. Hence I would > never > >>>> bother to ban by IP if the ban is supposed to be longer than a few > hours. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ______________________________**_________________ > >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >>>> please visit: > >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds< > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >>> please visit: > >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >> please visit: > >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
