[cod] GUID Auth unknown

[Paul Warren]

Cheers Nemeth,

Luke over at fsgames.net raised a ticket with EB and they confirmed what you 
just said and it was a problem with the Activision auth servers. Which are 
having problems. They said it should be sorted soon.


Regards,
Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nemeth" <nemeth at jolt.co.uk>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [cod] GUID Auth unknown


> PB has carried out strict GUID Auth checks for a while now. This is where 
> the PB server gets client GUIDs from Activision's cdkey auth servers, 
> rather than from the client - which can be spoofed to avoid bans.
>
> The problems at the moment are down to the COD cdkey auth server (players 
> are also experiencing delays awaiting connection to servers). We had the 
> same problem back in Feb when PB was updated to kick players with UNKN 
> GUID by default, and problems with the cdkey auth servers then resulted in 
> loads of these kicks.
>
> So according to Even Balance it's down to Activision to get this fixed. In 
> the meantime pb_sv_guidrelax 1 is a temp fix, but once things are back to 
> normal it's recommended you revert to pb_sv_guidrelax 0 so the strict GUID 
> validation is enforced again.
>
> Nemeth
>
> Jolt Call of Duty Head Admin & PunksBusted.com Staff
> cod.jolt.co.uk - #cod.jolt - punksbusted.com - #punksbusted
>
> Jay Vasallo wrote:
>>
>> You should take this question to www.punksbusted.com . They will hook ya 
>> right up. Pb works the same on windows as it does in linux so you 
>> shouldn't have any issues there.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Warren" 
>> <paulwarren at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> To: <cod at icculus.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cod] GUID Auth unknown
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> but does it mean banned guid's etc. can connect to your servers?
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Capt Spaulding" 
>>> <captainspaulding at captainspaulding.net>
>>> To: <cod at icculus.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [cod] GUID Auth unknown
>>>
>>>
>>>> Put it into your codserver.cfg file, so you dont have to type it in 
>>>> each time, here is a clip from ours.
>>>> //Enable Punkbuster Server
>>>>
>>>> pb_sv_Enable
>>>>
>>>> wait 5
>>>>
>>>> set sv_punkbuster "1"
>>>>
>>>> pb_sv_guidrelax "1"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Warren" 
>>>> <paulwarren at blueyonder.co.uk>
>>>> To: <cod at icculus.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:31 PM
>>>> Subject: [cod] GUID Auth unknown
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just started up a few cod servers to run. And everyone who joins 
>>>>> seems to get kicked for GUID auth unknown via pb any ideas on a 
>>>>> permant fix for this. I know I can do pb_sv_guidrelax 1 in console but 
>>>>> it would mean doing it every time I start a server up. Is there 
>>>>> anything else I can do to get around this error?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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