I think it would be better to just convert the steamid to its 32 bit int and
use that for identification.

I wonder why valve changed the steamids string for l4d. reminds me of those
old "VALVE_0:0:X" id's.



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:58 PM
To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
Subject: Re: [hlds] SourceBans typo will ban nearly every Valve employee :(

One option is to normalize the data before you add it to the database in a
format that's easier to work with.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Paloma
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 2:50 PM
To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
Subject: Re: [hlds] SourceBans typo will ban nearly every Valve employee :(

Oh, right, I see what you mean. You need REGEXP for the [0-9].

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of msleeper
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [hlds] SourceBans typo will ban nearly every Valve employee :(

Yes, thank Left 4 Dead for changing the way auth/SteamIDs work.

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:43 -0800, Tony Paloma wrote:
> Hah. That's awesome. This is one of the reasons I only use my own plugins.
> 
> Is the REGEXP really necessary? Can't you just change it to = ?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nephyrin Zey
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:39 PM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> Subject: [hlds] SourceBans typo will ban nearly every Valve employee :(
> 
> So here i am perusing my logs when i see
> 
> L 02/02/2009 - 20:25:28: "EricS<114><STEAM_0:1:10><>" disconnected
> (reason "You have been banned by this server, check
> http://www.doublezen.net/ for more info")
> 
> wait, what?
> 
> No ban matches that steamID. So i dig into the SourceBans module, and find
> this:
> 
> SELECT bid FROM %s_bans WHERE ((type = 0 AND authid REGEXP
> 'STEAM_[0-9]:%s') OR (type = 1 AND ip = '%s')) AND (length = '0' OR
> ends > UNIX_TIMESTAMP()) AND RemoveType IS NULL
> 
> What that means, is if 1234 is banned, so is 123, 12, and 1. Since
> Valve has a lot of really short steam IDs, this means that any sizable
> database will return matches against them.
> 
> To fix this, if you run SourceBans, change line 774 to:
> 
> SELECT bid FROM %s_bans WHERE ((type = 0 AND authid REGEXP
> '^STEAM_[0-9]:%s$') OR (type = 1 AND ip = '%s')) AND (length = '0' OR
> ends > UNIX_TIMESTAMP()) AND RemoveType IS NULL
> 
> IE add that nice ^ and $ there, so it only matches complete IDs.
> Recompile sourcebans.sp and install.
> 
> I would like to apologize to EricS and invite him to play on the Nemu
> servers whenever he damn well pleases!
> 
> - Neph
> 
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