Wikipedia is a webpage about rumors, so please don't count it as fact. The 0/1 is about the auth server. Long long time ago, before Steam, there was WON. There were two WON servers for authentication, east coast and west coast. The authentication was very simple and not secure, two players were able to play with the same CD key at the same time, they only needed to block on of the WON servers.
> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
