That number is part of the calculation as to how the steam id converts to an
integer. I'm sure with the amount of people using steam they have a few more
than 2 servers ;)

2009/2/3 msleeper <[email protected]>

> 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
> > >
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