Streaming to Pbbans

We are currentley streaming to pbbans. I'll probably have to do some tweaks for the better. Will do so, when I'm on my own comp.

I'm glad you started streaming to PBBans, but something isn't working right and perhaps you should check a couple of settings on your account page on their site.

Whenever I join the Crypt server, I see a PBBans welcome message, so you're definitely streaming to them, but their bans aren't enforced for some reason.

Today sonovharley was on your server and he's using a pbguid that is banned by PBBans. He shouldn't be able to play on any server that streams but he can still play on yours.

This is the message you see when he joins:

Code:

2012-07-17 09:01:15 : High Command: |PBBans.com| Enforced a prior ban for 'sonovharley' (5a7063a2)

He is recognized as someone using a banned key but he doesn't get kicked and he is still able to play on your server. We had enough sensible players on the server to get a kick vote passed and that took care of him, but he shouldn't be able to join in the first place.

I'm not sure what the actual reason is, but please check if the "enforce MBi Bans" option is enabled on your account page on PBBans.

If you have any questions about this, please ask!

Dr. Funkenstein

I checked PbBans and the enforce MBi Bans is enable,only thing disable is the IP Restriction.

is PBBans behind the odd messages on the server?

granted i havent played in awhile ( yes br8kaway am still playing with my level 50 paladin- geez get over it )
after completing an objective it would say **##-letters (*&((* completed the objective or captured the spawn..

never seen that before..!!


just curious.. since i believe the only change to the server since i left was streaming to PBBans, right. ?

nah.. thats not pb.. it does it to me as well.. its the color coding in my name, and im assuming yours aswell.
it calls me "Villa0", "maps##generic" and a couple other things depending on the exact coding i use at the time, and what objective i am completing

dvs0ne wrote:

nah.. thats not pb.. it does it to me as well.. its the color coding in my name, and im assuming yours aswell.
it calls me "Villa0", "maps##generic" and a couple other things depending on the exact coding i use at the time, and what objective i am completing

Dvs he is one smart cookie

dvs0ne wrote:

nah.. thats not pb.. it does it to me as well.. its the color coding in my name, and im assuming yours aswell.
it calls me "Villa0", "maps##generic" and a couple other things depending on the exact coding i use at the time, and what objective i am completing

sorry, should have been more clear..

i never said i completed the objective or captured a spawn point..

these messages would just appear on my screen..

but if you are implying, others color coding is causing this - well sir,. that would be something new to me..

the coding in my tag does that.. as for reg players w/out that same color. never seen it on my end
in fact F1cT10N did the same coding too

all good man- was just odd is all.. Persephone (name correct??) was capturing a spawn point.. i ran into assist. but before i even touched it- the global message came out all in blue letters - some random shit saying blah blah captured the spawn.. didnt say it was him who captured - thats what trying to say..

it was just weird - never seen it before..

Loki. wrote:

dvs0ne wrote:

nah.. thats not pb.. it does it to me as well.. its the color coding in my name, and im assuming yours aswell.
it calls me "Villa0", "maps##generic" and a couple other things depending on the exact coding i use at the time, and what objective i am completing

sorry, should have been more clear..

i never said i completed the objective or captured a spawn point..

these messages would just appear on my screen..

but if you are implying, others color coding is causing this - well sir,. that would be something new to me..

No shit you don't complete the objective, at least you admit it ...total NOOB!!!!!!

Loki. wrote:

all good man- was just odd is all.. Persephone (name correct??) was capturing a spawn point.. i ran into assist. but before i even touched it- the global message came out all in blue letters - some random shit saying blah blah captured the spawn.. didnt say it was him who captured - thats what trying to say..

it was just weird - never seen it before..

actually, persephone has the same coding..

DrFunkenstein wrote:

I'm glad you started streaming to PBBans, but something isn't working right and perhaps you should check a couple of settings on your account page on their site.

Whenever I join the Crypt server, I see a PBBans welcome message, so you're definitely streaming to them, but their bans aren't enforced for some reason.

Today sonovharley was on your server and he's using a pbguid that is banned by PBBans. He shouldn't be able to play on any server that streams but he can still play on yours.

This is the message you see when he joins:

Code:

2012-07-17 09:01:15 : High Command: |PBBans.com| Enforced a prior ban for 'sonovharley' (5a7063a2)

He is recognized as someone using a banned key but he doesn't get kicked and he is still able to play on your server. We had enough sensible players on the server to get a kick vote passed and that took care of him, but he shouldn't be able to join in the first place.

I'm not sure what the actual reason is, but please check if the "enforce MBi Bans" option is enabled on your account page on PBBans.

If you have any questions about this, please ask!

Dr. Funkenstein

he was on tonight- spec'd him for 5 minutes.. no way hes hacking,, so me and BR8k let him play--

so whatever his offence is, its not ruining the game play of others..

that's just my opinion.. if other members disagree - then am sure we'll ban him ..

Loki. wrote:

he was on tonight- spec'd him for 5 minutes.. no way hes hacking,, so me and BR8k let him play--

so whatever his offence is, its not ruining the game play of others..

that's just my opinion.. if other members disagree - then am sure we'll ban him ..

That is up to you of course. I just wanted to draw to your attention that there is probably something wrong with the way the streaming is configured and if it doesn't stop him from joining, it probably won't stop others either.

The second thing I wanted to say is that it is unwise to spec someone if you want to figure out if he's using a hack or something like that. For reasons best known to the developers, the server tells a client that someone is speccing him and who is speccing, and bot makers can make use of this information. If I would write a bot, I'd disable it automatically the moment someone would start speccing the bot user.

Dr. Funkenstein

thats why activity can still join...
agera47

dvs0ne wrote:

thats why activity can still join...
agera47

agera47 is activity?

he was on yesterday... owning at will..


good to know...

yeh.. i wasn't on server at the time.. but i saw he was averaging 3.43 kills / min.
and dummah from bh asked me to watch for him..
so i asked a clanmate to check his smurfs.. came up as invalido/ activity.
also confirmed by funkenstein

He will be receiving a PB ban the next time I see him online.

This is to DrFunkenstein

Is it true when PbBans is running,whatever bans are streaming are llive to the CrYpT server?I do see files that can be downloaded such as ban/hacks and so fourth I don't need to add any of these files to our client side right?Trust me I have read and read on PbBans web site and alot of information.Note anyone else can key in on this if they would like to.

1nsane wrote:

This is to DrFunkenstein

Is it true when PbBans is running,whatever bans are streaming are llive to the CrYpT server?I do see files that can be downloaded such as ban/hacks and so fourth I don't need to add any of these files to our client side right?Trust me I have read and read on PbBans web site and alot of information.Note anyone else can key in on this if they would like to.

I'll contact you later today through a PM, I'll try to make some screenshots etc. The one you posted looks pretty similar to what we have btw.

Dr. Funkenstein

Update PbBans
July 27, 2012


After speaking with our host of 3 years about our options (all which involves us moving to another datacenter), we have decided to move and go with another host in Chicago. We hope the servers will be shipped within the next few days. We will have more control and better options to deal with DDoS attacks there plus our operation costs will be lower.

July 26, 2012


As some are already aware PBBans is currently under multiple DDoS attacks which are targeting our web and hub servers. We are working to get them back online as soon as possible. Should you have any questions or need support, you can join our IRC at #pbbans on QuakeNet.

PBBans seems to be working again.

We had to add the new server IP to the account, it's waiting for approval, and I guess you'll have to do the same because of the transition from Chicago to Dallas. It doesn't take too long usually so I hope we'll be streaming to them again pretty soon.

Dr. Funkenstein

DrFunkenstein wrote:

PBBans seems to be working again.

We had to add the new server IP to the account, it's waiting for approval, and I guess you'll have to do the same because of the transition from Chicago to Dallas. It doesn't take too long usually so I hope we'll be streaming to them again pretty soon.

Dr. Funkenstein

Notice the samething and waiting for appoval here too!!

I haven't been able to get us streaming to PBBans again. Any luck on your part?

One thing I noticed is that the instructions on their site for doing it manually with rcon are outdated since they still contain the old IP address. I got a mail from them with the current IP addresses, you probably got one too. I tried to use those, but that didn't help.

Dr. Funkenstein

DrFunkenstein wrote:

I haven't been able to get us streaming to PBBans again. Any luck on your part?

One thing I noticed is that the instructions on their site for doing it manually with rcon are outdated since they still contain the old IP address. I got a mail from them with the current IP addresses, you probably got one too. I tried to use those, but that didn't help.

Dr. Funkenstein

PBBans is Full Streaming to our server.
I had no issues setting up the new PBBans Streaming to the new I.P.
weird I checked our file and has our old I.P. address
;PB UCON Settings / Lists
pb_sv_usessionlimit 8
pb_sv_ucontimeout 300
pb_sv_uconempty
pb_sv_uconadd 1 "208.122.49.138" "pbbhub1" "pbbanshub"
pb_sv_uconadd 1 "208.122.49.139" "pbbhub1-2" "pbbanshub"
pb_sv_uconadd 1 "208.122.49.140" "pbbhub1-3" "pbbanshub"
pb_sv_uconadd 1 "69.65.22.152" "pbbhub2-1" "pbbanshub"
pb_sv_uconignoreempty
pb_sv_uconignore "quit"
pb_sv_uconignore "pb_sv_md5toolfreq"
pb_sv_uconignore "pb_sv_guidrelax