Linked GUID Question

[Southpaw]

HI folks,

 

Been a while since I've been active or posted.

 

Since I'm a noob at most of this Anti-Cheat stuff, I apologize if this question has been asked before.

I tried using the search function to find out but it didnt work.

 

This question pertains to COD4

I recently clicked on HL (Hub Live) in my server list and ran through all the players on the server at the time.

What I found was several with linked Guid's a mile long(not just from COD4) and a gazzillion IP#'s. What really intrigued me and sparked my urgency to post was that several had multiple previous bans by Pbbans. But not with their current GUID.

what gives??

 

Are these players hackers?

Should I be concerned?

and lastly, should I ban them from my servers on sight?

 

thanks in advance

 

Southpaw

[LoneHawk]

What you are seeing is that many GUIDs become linked by IP address, which is unreliable as the only source because of dynamic IP assignment by ISPs.

[fozzer]

At the moment any random keygen user can join your servers with no problem what so ever because you have not set a task to set it to 0.

 

COD4 forces the pb_sv_guidrelax setting to 7 on each map_rotate or server restart,the only way to 'fix' it, is with a PB task that constantly reassigns it to 0.

 

pb_sv_task 60 240 pb_sv_guidrelax 0

 

 0 = Kick for UNKN GUIDs, WRONGIP GUIDs and DUPLICATE GUIDs.
1 = Kick for WRONGIP GUIDs and DUPLICATE GUIDs
2 = Kick for UNKN guid and DUPLICATE GUIDs
3 = Kick for DUPLICATE GUIDs.
4 = Kick for UNKN guid and WRONGIP GUIDs
5 = Kick for WRONGIP GUIDs .
6 = Kick for UNKN guid
7 = DO NOT Kick for UNKN guid, WRONGIP GUIDs and DUPLICATE GUIDs.

 

pb_sv_GUIDRelax 0 is the default guidrelax setting.

 

Its also worthwhile putting this into your pbsv.cfg

pb_sv_NoGuidGrace 10 [0-300](default=1) Holds the number of seconds PB will wait before kicking players who join without having a PB GUID.

Refusing to enter a CDKey into the game causes the "no guid" condition.

[Southpaw]

ahhh... ok, I understand what that does.

 

but what does it mean when a single player has that many linked guid's in relation to his,

and that some of those linked guid's were previosly banned?

 

thanks

 

south

[fozzer]

ahhh... ok, I understand what that does.

 

but what does it mean when a single player has that many linked guid's in relation to his,

and that some of those linked guid's were previosly banned?

 

thanks

 

south

 

It normally means that the player was using a downloaded version of the game, and because a lot of admins are unaware of cod4 setting the guidrelax setting to 7 on every map rotate or server restart, their servers will allow these llama's to play with no problem.

[Southpaw]

thanks for the input folks.

 

I see that my clan's servers servers are set to 7 ... I guess some of our clan members were using dup copies among family in our server so we set it to 7 so they all could play. May have to change that in the future.

 

thanks again

 

Southpaw

[fozzer]

Just be aware that cheaters actively look for servers with PB disabled or have a guidrelax setting other than 0.

If you elect to leave your guidrelax setting on anything other than 0 you are effectively compromising the reason why you stream in the first place :)