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    83.142.84.114:27960

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    :)

     

    jpat is handy for keeping your md5/cvar info up to date with the click of a button, but if you are proficient with manually updating your cvar/md5 detection scans then I would recomend you stick with those methods.

    Reminder posts for our admins are posted by our MCI manager in the game specific sections of the forums whenever a cvar/md5 scan update has been added.

     

    http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16906

    83.142.84.114:27960

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    from the moment you start streaming via the hub bannable violations will be added automatically to your pbbans.dat.

    Violations detected on other Hub servers get added within 4 seconds and bannable violations detected on servers using the standard repository method of streaming will be added auto when the bans are parsed from the streamed logs (this gets done daily)

     

    It's best practise to generate a fresh pbbans.dat using the "generate ban list" utility found here click me you decide if you want to include bans for cvar violations (recommended) and you copy/paste the bans you already have in your existing pbbans.dat into the large window.

    When you click to create banlist all duplicate guid's will be removed and the pbbans.dat that is created will be bang up to date.

    You only do this once, afterwards all is done auto :)

    got a problem..

    in Enemy Territory

    Posted

    Fozzer I am not a server admin myself although if you could tell me how one joins the streaming pb info to you guys I'd appreciate it, im sure there are SA's I know that would join this if they only knew how. Also on a side note, not that I care what people think about others because of the game version they play, I have been playing 2.6 and recently 2.6b twl for 3+ years, on beta and high beta teams taking on alpha teams before the split was made from beta and alpha twl to just one. I play 2.6 for twl and its competitive reasons, and I play 2.55 for its pub reasons. I don't understand you people who think it really matters what version of a game you play, serious business if you ask me. The number of "noobs" on 2.6b is probably higher than on 2.55 just because of the higher number of players and servers. Not everyone in 2.6 is alpha, not everyone in 2.5 is a dumbass who is either afraid, lazy, or just not knowing how to patch their game. Almost all of 2.55 have all the versions of et.

    a good start to anything is actually reading whats been posted .. let me try one more time.

     

    FACT1. any ET server that is running a version below 2.60b has a gaping security loophole that any malicious user can exploit if the sv_download cvar is enabled.

     

    FACT2. as posted to everyone when they join the forums :

    the criteria for streaming admin status is;

    1. Have rcon/FTP to a PB enabled game server(FTP not mandatory)

    2. Be willing to stream your cheat logs to an EvenBalance repository

    Once streaming has been verified your forum status will be upgraded to "streaming game admin" and you will have access to the streaming game admin private section of the forum as well as access to PBBans Master Player Index(MPI3) / Master Config Index(MCI) and all that PBBans has to offer.

    All this is free.

    Hello ban relating PB

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    slight correction :)

     

    all games should work ok on that pc but you will not be able to play any game on this list click me on a pb enabled server.

    of course, you always have the option to play servers that do not have pb running :)

    Global guid/hardware bans are dealt with exclusively by EvenBalance and if you think this is an error the trouble ticket system mentioned earlier is the only way forward.

    got a problem..

    in Enemy Territory

    Posted

    I'd have to agree with mr.buckly on the fact that 2.55 is a better place to run a server if you want to run an active constantly full server. As opposed to 2.6 that has thousands of servers and have no where near that many ever with a single player inside of them. Unfortunatly you face the issue of a less effective pb system. If there are any specific commands or settings a server admin can use to run pb to its maximum efficiency, or if there is anything else one can do to improve the performance of pb on 2.55 etpub servers or etpro, could someone please post them. I dont run servers myself but know many many people who do, and who would be grateful for them. Thankyou.

    there is a lot that can give pb a little extra help that turns pb from fairly competent anti cheat software into fairly l33t anti cheat software .. this info is reserved for admins who stream their servers to PBBans .. obviously we are not going to post cvar and md5 scan information in an open section of the forum :) .. that would be akin to police erecting a huge sign saying 

    caution: speed trap 500 yards ahead !
    :)

    got a problem..

    in Enemy Territory

    Posted

    I have SEVEN ET servers running 24/7.

     

    Five of these are 2.55 servers and two are 2.60B servers. Take a guess which servers stay full to capacity almost 24 hours a day............In case you dont know i will tell you.............its the 2.55 servers.

     

    The 2.60 servers stay empty almost 90 percent of the time.........they are a waste of my money, and if we didnt need them for WPL and TWL they would be gone.

     

    I would rather pay for a CONSTANTLY FULL 2.55 server anyday over a NEARLY EMPTY 2.60 server that does nothing but collect dust.

     

    There are thousands of 2.55 servers running, and the reason i dont update is NOT because im too damn lazy, its because me and the HUNDREDS of regular players who play on my servers are quiet happy with 2.55.

     

    And PunkBuster DOES include 2.55 when it sends out an update, tho usually it fucks the servers up.....2.55 and 2.60 for a few days till they release an update to fix their update.......you can tell when an update has been released because NO ONE can connect to your server till you type in pb_sv_guidrelax 1 till they fix the problem.

     

    So you can play on your super uber 2.60 not even half full servers all you want. I will stick to the 2.55 allways full noob servers as you say they are referred to.

    who referred to anything as "noob servers", admins running servers below 2.60b have had a security loophole pointed out to them and by choice they choose to ignore it :) ergo when/if something nasty happens they have no one to blame except themselves .. this is not a topic of debate about what fills servers better and whats does not but a statement of fact.

    Any ET server not patched to 2.60b is vulnerable to a security exploit whereby your rcon/ftp details can be obtained by a malicious client who connects to servers below 2.60b and inputs 4 commands via the console if the sv_download cvar is enabled

    Admins who run any ET server no matter what version will find that running PBBans MCL/MDL will help no end in keeping their servers clean and the MBI does not discriminate as to which version of the game your running :)

     

    On a sidenote .. I guess if the 3,731 2.60 servers were cut to 300 overnight every one of them would be full as well :P

    Think about it :)

    got a problem..

    in Enemy Territory

    Posted

    Thanks Ben .. a good informative response m8 :)

     

    Just to update things, sitting on my desktop is the actual hack programme used to steal rcon/ftp details of any ET server running versions below 2.60b

    after installation all it takes is for someone to join the server and input 4 commands via the console they then have a generated log with all rcon/ftp details of that particular server.

    Thats how easy it is.

    I tested this out on 3 different servers chosen completely at random from ASE server list.

    2.55 successfully received all rcon/ftp details

    2.60 successfully received all rcon details

    2.60b no success

     

    If a nub like me can successfully hack a server in a minute or less its only a matter of time before you get a visit from someone with evil intent, these people actively trawl for servers they can hack, but as more and more server admins update their servers the playing field diminishes and that increases the chances of you getting a malicious visitor.

    What you must decide as a server admin is;

    1. do you wait for something really nasty to happen before you upgrade

    2. do you upgrade now to allow your regular clientelle to play in safety

    not a hard choice to make is it :)

     

    I used to admin servers for GamesDomain before it went belly up and was quite surprised by the amount of players that connected to the servers that we had no control over apart from rcon and were running older versions of RTCW.

    What I found was that a lot of the players had no clue about patches and how to apply them, all they saw was a server protocol error elsewhere so they became the regulars on the older version servers we had.

    That may not be the case here but I can not stress hard enough how important it is to upgrade your ET servers to 2.60b.

    Running anything less is like putting a welcome mat out to cheaters and hackers :)

    You have been kicked by Punkbuster

    in Battlefield 2142

    Posted

    Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson takes publisher to task for "poor game quality," missed opportunities;

     

    "Poor reviews and quality are beginning to tarnish the EA brand," Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson told investors in a note distributed this morning. "According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings.com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts' overall game quality continues to fall."

     

    Wilson couldn't point to any one thing within EA that would cause a decline in game quality, but he said the company failed an attempt to standardize its studios on the RenderWare engine, was enduring "excessive employee turnover" that lowered the average experience level at the company, and that it has perhaps focused too much on quantity and not enough on quality.

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