MaydaX

Back Online. It may be down a few times during the day while I am updating the server. Few brownouts are better then no streaming at all :)

You can add new ones they will be added when we are back up. I added error checks for the hub functions. It will tell you if it can't connect to the hub to make changes

We don't rent our server hardware. The $600 is a one time cost to replace hardware in a server we own. We pay a monthly fee for bandwidth and hosting for all 3 of our servers. Our DB server is a V8 Xeon (8 Cores) with 16GB of RAM, Hub Server is a Quad Core Xeon with 8GB of ram. So the hardware we have would cost a lot more if we rented it. Plus we are co-located in the USA.

Do you think we just bought cheap home PC drives? No we bought a 300GB raptor and a 1TB Enterprise HDD for storage. Plus we had to overnight them. Running a server isn't as cheap as upgrading your home PC. If everyone feels the same way fine, don't donate and we will eventually run out of cash (Not anytime soon mind you) and go belly up. I don't get paid for my work at PBBans and my life outside of PBBans is not as free as it once was so PBBans is not on the top of my to-do list anymore. I don't have to be here but as long as there is a demand and I have the time I will be here.

If all goes well, we will be back online tomorrow. Just in time for the weekend :)

Hub server doesn't have much data on it. Just a days worth of logs and some small apps / maintenance scripts etc. And it uses SATA drives since SCSI was too far out of our budget when we bought the servers.

Backup HDD is fine, it's the primary one that failed which held the OS.

Hub is running off the secondary HDD to help relieve the stress off the primary one until a replacement is installed. Hopefully it will hold out until then.

This ban type (Generic BIND Scan) was created by PBBans so you won't find it anywhere else. It scans a users binds for cheat related cvars. http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbviols.html

MPI no, MBI yes http://www.pbbans.com/mbi-search.html I think you have to be streaming to see those options.

This is normal, the only ban messages are from cheaters that the hub itself bans (EB, MD5, CVAR, etc)

When duke nukem forever goes gold

also make sure it's the right PB folder. Linux often stores PB in the .callofduty4/pb folder. To find out where it is being stored use pb_sv_homepath in RCON. EDIT: Are you running a listen server at home? Cause all those PB messages in yellow are not sent to the client. Use RCON to get info from a remote server. HLSW works well.

If you have shell access http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsetup....usingpbsetupcon If you have FTP http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-cod4.php and http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/cod4/pbsvnew.so

A hack is defined as an application that alters a game or game memory to obtain features not normally available to players. Since power servers are created by changing server settings and therefore do not modify or alter the game, they are not a form of hacking so there is no reason for EB to take action against them. Stat padding, etc is not hacking in any game and it's up to the developer to take action against players for doing so.

Try pb_sv_restrictions 2

Main reason people have been getting away with it was because our admin panel never checked the MPi when adding a server. Now new and current servers are checked on a regular basis. Bottom line, there is no reason a server should be "playing the games" it hosts. That's indicated when it shows on the MPi. Also in your case megatron, MPi shows a lot of LAN IP's from your server at 65.102.173.211:16567: Guess they allow Home / LAN servers or they don't know about it. We do the checks for security reasons.

http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-starterg...html#joinpbbans

We have seen multi servers doing the same thing. Those messages are not from PBBans plus the server you posted doesn't even stream to us. Starting to think there may be an exploit that allows a person to send server commands.

Happy Holidays from all of us at PBBans. We wish you a safe and ban free holiday season.

Screw codwaw, bring on cod mw 2 http://www.gametab.com/news/2822004/

Due to past events no. It is for security reasons so we can screen servers.

The answer is simple .... Remove Vista and install Windows Xp :P

/pb_cvarval authservername From the IP listed above So it's not cracked :)

http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsvc.html