Along this note though, if you send the incorrect password too many
times and ARE banned, then if you unban that IP and start using the
correct password, even a 'successful' challenge claims to be
unsuccessful. The only way to escape this cycle is to restart the
server. Is it possible to fix that?

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 19:18, Alfred Reynolds wrote:
> There is a single challenge per IP. If you send an incorrect challenge
> value (because you used another rcon tool from the same machine or
> because the server restarted) then the server will reply to any rcon
> requests with "Bad challenge." Client tools need to detect this string
> and redo the "challenge" query to get an updated challenge value.
>
> Sending the wrong challenge too many times in a row will NOT cause you
> to be auto-banned from the server (it just keeps ignoring you). Sending
> the wrong password too many times WILL.
>
> - Alfred


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