[bf1942] any way to ban players by CD KEY?

[WhoCares?]

There's a very fundamental reason why the CDKEY is not in your banlist...
You could then use that information for no good.  'tis why Valve came up
with their WonID system.  It's also why older games allowed you to ban and
entire IP range, ie 128.1.53.xx or 128.1.xx.xx.  I realize that's a bit
harsh, but sometimes you just don't care and one jerk-off ruins it for a lot
of players.

Rich a.k.a. WhoCares?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timo Hilbertz" <timo at hilbertz.de>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:27 AM
Subject: [bf1942] any way to ban players by CD KEY?


> a question for ryan though its a bit off-topic, but i think ryan has a lot
> of expertise to answer this:
>
> i noticed that banning players is kinda useless cause the only info that
is
> stored in the banlist is the ip number.
> i believe about 90% of all BF42 players use a dial up connection with
> DHCP-assigned ip adresses, so the next time they dial up, they get a
> different ip and can re-login to the server they where banned before.
>
> half-life uses a very clever way to permanently ban ppl by storing their
CD
> key (WON ID) instead of ip or nick name.
>
> BF42 also uses a CD KEY and it seems that this info is exchanged with the
> server cause you can login twice with one CD KEY on a lan server, but only
> once on an internet server. i suppose that the info is transmitted using
> gamespy queries, so maybe there is any way to extract the CD KEY values
from
> this protocol?
>
> it would be very nice to store CD keys in a ban list (or maybe just a part
> of it to prevent ppl from stealing CD keys). i think many developers like
> kevin with his battlefield server manager (BFSM) would be very happy to
> offer a clever way to effectively ban TKs and other morons.
>
> so, ryan, would you mind explaining why CD keys arent used in BF servers -
> and if there is any way to implement this with a 3rd party tool?
>
> thank you very much for your attention.
> bobby shaftoe aka timo hilbertz
> bf-42.org site admin
>
>