Well, as I'm sure you know, the second 0 or 1 is the authserver that the particular client uses. I assume the change of the first digit to 1 is another set, or another layer, of authentication. L4D is strongly tied into the friends and Community system, so I bet they didn't want it bogging down the whole auth system.
Which, if this timeout bug is related to L4D, and I personally think it is, the bogging down happened anyway and they're trying to fix it. On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 23:04 -0500, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote: > 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----- > From: [email protected] > [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----- > From: [email protected] > [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 > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
