It's doable. Assuming you mean having a plugin running that would report the IPs, and a bash script or something that would IPTABLES or some other IP block method them out, then that is very doable.
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:14 -0400, SakeFox wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
