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

[Timo Hilbertz]

well, i didnt ask him to implement it into the linux server, i just asked
how if he could explain how its done (gamespy?). all i was asking for was a
brief answer - not a new feature.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Scott Brooks [mailto:blaze at fragz.ca]
Gesendet: Samstag, 11. Januar 2003 03:25
An: bf1942 at icculus.org
Betreff: Re: [bf1942] any way to ban players by CD KEY?


Although you may consider dynamic IP address = Dial-up, I'm not sure how
many others do.

Static IP address and Dynamic IP address is the common term when your
talking about an ip address that stays the same, and one that can
change.

Either way, banning by a hash of the CD Key is really handy since you
know that you banned that person, and the next guy who gets his IP won't
be banned too.  You also don't need to worry about banning subnets.

HL, Q3, RTCW can all ban by a hash of the cd key (q3/rtcw through
punkbuster).

Having a hash of the CD Key is also really handy for telling if someone
really is someone.  You can check through the logs to see if someone
with that hash has already connected in the past.  Many leagues also use
hashs of the cd keys to try and stop people from ringing during matches.

It's a nice feature that I'm sure would be used, but it's alot lower on
the feature list then "stable server" so we should all do what we can to
help ryan get the server rock solid before we worry about stuff like
this.  Also, ryan's contract may not include adding features, so it may
be out of his hands.

Scott

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:09, Christopher Kunz wrote:
> Scratch Monkey wrote:
> > --On Friday, January 10, 2003 2:29 PM -0500 "Ryan C. Gordon"
> > <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I doubt most players are using dial-up for bf1942, actually.
> >
> >
> > Just checked my Tribes 2 tribe and about 25% of over 50 members are on a
> > modem. These are people who buy bleeding edge games, mostly adults, so
> > they're not at the mercy of what connectivity a parent is willing to
buy.
> >
> >
>
> Well, our ip stats here show fairly well that the overwhelming majority
> of, say, a figure between 90 and 95 per cent of all players on our game
> servers use dial-up connections.
>
> Having tcpdump or iptraf log all src and dest ips is pretty convincing.
> Of course, that's propably a local fact because in most of mainland
> Europe, except perhaps scandinavia, broadband access is still not cheap
> enough for the mass market. And since the biggest ISP and DSL dealer
> here in Germany, T-Online, is using ppp over ethernet and disconnecting
> its clients once per 24 hours, you can consider even those DSL customers
> as "dial-up".
>
> --ck
>
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