Don't know if exist or not, but a script that would ip ban someone that connect x times in y seconds might be a good addition to stop some spam on that too
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
