Wikipedia page: "1 being an account registered before the release of HL2 and 0 for being after."
This is just so wrong. I'm not sure the 0/1 for auth server thing is right either. I've never seen a Valve employee confirm this. I'm pretty sure it's just arbitrary. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kveri Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:22 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] SourceBans typo will ban nearly every Valve employee :( Look at the wikipedia, page SteamID, it is explained there. Kveri msleeper wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
