Brilliant...
I would like to apologize to anyone banned because of this snafu. Good 
find Neph.

Nephyrin Zey skrev:
> 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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