they were talking about blocking the IP at the firewall level so it never even reached your servers, but glad you got it figured out :)
Thank you, Alec Sanger P: 248.941.3813 F: 313.286.8945 > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:01:57 -0400 > From: mondo...@gmail.com > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] blocking the server's "PLAYERNAME has joined the game" > message > > Actually, even with bans, we found that we would see the "PLAYERNAME has > joined the game" as they must attempt to connect for the bans to process. > The plugin that was linked by Jeff S. did the job. Sure, we can't see > when ANYONE joins the game, but it stopped the vulgar names from spamming > our screens constantly, and that was the goal. > Thanks again all. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Tony Paloma <drunkenf...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > You guys know they haven't allocated IP addresses by class since the 90's, > > right? The guy's IP block could be /anything. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Anthal > > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:01 AM > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > Subject: Re: [hlds] blocking the server's "PLAYERNAME has joined the game" > > message > > > > A few class C's should work, if that. If you honestly think that it will > > have a huge effect on your playerbase, you've got some issues. The > > likelihood of multiple people playing on such a limited IP range is so > > small, you'd have a better chance of playing the lottery. Plus it only > > really needs to be in effect for a few hours or days. After they can't > > get the server to respond, most people stop trying. > > > > Oh, and a class B (/16) is only 65,536 IP's. Considering there are 4.2 > > billion IP's out there (including RFC 1918 addresses), it's a drop in > > the bucket. > > > > Matt Stanton wrote: > > > Ban a whole class b network block. That fixes most cable/dsl > > > customers... or small countries. > > > > > > Anthal wrote: > > > > > >> Ban by subnet, solves all problems! > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGTX_WL_HM_express_032009#colortheme _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
