Why am I banned?

donkeykong · Post by **donkeykong** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:36 pm

B4 i had even created an account, i went on theuniversal.net and found out that 4 some reason I was banned. So I used a proxy to go 2 the same spot, and it let me in. Does that mean my IP address is banned 4 sum reason?

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:53 pm

banned where?

donkeykong · Post by **donkeykong** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:21 am

When ever i go 2 theuniversal.net, it comes up with a screen sayin:
"You have been banned from this forum.
Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information."

And I cant go to anything, not downloads, not help, not donate and not even about. The only way i could start up an account woz by usin a CGI proxy. I hav 2 use it right now to b able 2 write this....

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:52 am

hmm...thats odd.

does the forum at sabrada.com let you post fine without the proxy?

Post by **Magicfinger** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:46 am

can you email your IP address to webmaster [at] theuniversal [dot] net please, as there are some ip ranges that have been banned and i need to check that yours isnt one of them

donkeykong · Post by **donkeykong** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:25 am

I can go to sabrada.net or woteva it woz, it let me in OK. My IP address is
203.173.46.234.

Post by **Magicfinger** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:23 am

sorry about that your ip address was part of a wildcard ip ban for one of our more unsavoury players, should all be working fine now.

donkeykong · Post by **donkeykong** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:14 am

Thanx 4 doin that, it worx fine now.

alner · Post by **alner** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:05 am

Maybe you shouldn't ban IP ranges, maybe just ban the 1 IP. As it would eliminate problems like these. And fi you want to eliminate one player from accessing, you should do what punkbuster does 9PB is an anti-cheat thing) ban them by hardware, so each time a user joins, signsup whatever, it assigns their computer a unique GUID, and it stays as it, so you can ban them via GUID. And it would be really expensive for the person to be unbanned...

I hope it helps lol, for more info on pb visit their official site.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:25 am

Banning by hardware sounds good...
(If it gets implemented I bet it'll be in secret

)

alner · Post by **alner** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:06 am

most likely, but I like the idea, because I got banned a while back from a COD server via punkbuster, because I was in a rival clan, and was on a winning streak, the owner got the shlits and banned me. I was able to get back into it after I had a much needed PC upgrade. But between that time period, I had changed my ISPp (because my other one was a rip off, and barely any bandwidth) and I had tried (even though it sucked) joining the server, and not-suprising was fully banned still.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:38 am

we already have that here actually. any op or higher can ban any player by looking up thier id via the *getid command and then banning it.
its nice, but for players who can access via multiple computers and/or know how to get around it, its somewhat useless..

on the other hand, for users that always stay in a certain ip range (like how yours always atart in 59.164) range banning would be quite effecient givin the current small community and lack of innocents to get hurt.

all depends on the player really. some get banned by id. some get banned by ip

alner · Post by **alner** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:16 pm

Well, I just had that surge of an idea.

I have a static IP however, so mine is always whatever it is. I think it's 59.167.**.**
so you're wrong, it's 59.167.

Anyway, just that idea, the punkbuster one you can get around it, changing mac address, but it never works, so it may be a good idea to improve it somehow.

Just an idea.

Thanks.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:19 pm

oops, yea, 7 not a 4. i only typed it from memory, it wasen't a copy and paste

and its not really static either, you've made posts here in 6 different ips

a much better thing to use would be the hostname of a persons pc.
just guessing and never have tried, but i don't think people can change thier hostname easily since it depends on thier account with thier isp and afaik, always is the same.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:34 pm

Actualy zar hostname can be easly set by going under My Computer->Propertys->Computer Name and clicking Change.

While messing with ipconfig /all I came up with this idea: why not ban by a network adpaters physical address? (Not the router,well...maybe,depending on the situation)
(adresses go like 00-12-**-etc)

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:47 pm

thats the network name of the pc for networks and network groups

like...if you had five pc's on a network, they could be named Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter, Office for easy recognition when sharing files over the network.

a hostname with the isp would be something like:
(whatever).plmthm01.pa.comcast.net

but...looking at all my past ones, they seem to change each time my ip changed. unless its just saying different ones due to them being old ip addresses and possibly in use by other people now or not in use at all and thus can't provide correct accurate info.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:48 pm

Mmm...my ISP does it diffrently,
(IP Adress,tukw.qwest.net)
There's always tukw.qwest.net at the end. I'm taking a quess tukw means tukwilla,a city near here.
Though banning by the something.qwest.net wouln't do much,if you ban soley on the hostname wouldn't that ban everyone in the area using that ISP?

It could be changed with a simple ISP change. Qwest for example has a huge list of 3rd party local ISPs that I could switch to (Cheaper prices but I don't exatcly trust 3rd partys handling my internet

) thus switching the host name. 20+ if I recall...

I think I'm not clear what your saying zaroba perhaps?

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