inb4 omfg msleeper u sux looooolololololololol On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, msleeper wrote:
> Why not post this as a suggestion for SourceBans? I don't think it > would > be too hard for them to be able to suppress connection messages for > banned users, considering there is a plugin that already does it. Just > use the same method, but only when the user has been blocked. > > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:01 -0400, MONDO wrote: >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds f0rkz f7lans.com - Not your moms marble madness _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
