Shared Banlist [Ver 1.0.0.0 27th September]

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Basic infomation:

This plugin will share all bans across servers running within the same instance of procon, allowing for global banning of players.

 

BF3 Compatible

 

Requirements:

Procon version 0.5.4.2 or above

 

Installation:

- Extract CSharedBanlist.cs into plugin directory.

 

Current version:

1.0.0.0

 

Changelog:

 

 

Notes:

 

Thanks to:

Phogue for Procon

 

Download:

link down below

 

Description:

 

When a ban is added on one server, it will appear on all others within the same instance of procon. Likewise bans removed will be removed on the other servers.

 

Bans are stored in a Banlist folder found in the Plugin directory, with each server having its own ban file.

 

CSharedBanlist.zip

Edited January 23, 2020 by maxdralle
add plugin cs file

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

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Originally Posted by XpKiller*:

 

Oh cool thats nice.

I build a similar plugin for mysql last weekend because of these hackers.

it does not Sync the banlist just check if the player is allowed to play.

And if a player is permanent banned by punkbuster it add him to the database.

I will stop develop my plugin.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

I should have mentioned that Punkbuster bans won't be shared, since there is a procon bug. Its been/being resolved for the next version.

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Originally Posted by XpKiller*:

 

i have worked out a workaround for that issue.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

i have worked out a workaround for that issue.

What was your workaround?

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Originally Posted by XpKiller*:

 

public void OnPlayerKicked(string strSoldierName, string strReason)

{

//PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player

if(strReason.Contains("PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player"))

{

string newReason = strReason.Replace("PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player","");

newReason = newReason.Replace("'"+strSoldierName+"'","");

newReason = newReason.Replace("...","");

this.InsertBan(strSoldierName, newReason);

}

}

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

public void OnPlayerKicked(string strSoldierName, string strReason)

{

//PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player

if(strReason.Contains("PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player"))

{

string newReason = strReason.Replace("PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player","");

newReason = newReason.Replace("'"+strSoldierName+"'","");

newReason = newReason.Replace("...","");

this.InsertBan(strSoldierName, newReason);

}

}

Where does that reason come from?

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Originally Posted by XpKiller*:

 

That reason is part of the Standard Punkbustermsg if some get banned.

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Originally Posted by homer2123*:

 

the plugin doesnt work

 

procon shows me only my bans and no bans from other plugin user

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

the plugin doesnt work

 

procon shows me only my bans and no bans from other plugin user

What do you mean?

 

Are you running a layer? If so this should be run only there, not individually..

 

Can you tell me exactly what you are doing? including your setup

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Originally Posted by homer2123*:

 

i have put the plugin to the plugin folder from our procon server and activated the plugin in procon

 

on the ban list are only the bans from our server which we have made by ourself

 

sry for my bad english

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

i have put the plugin to the plugin folder from our procon server and activated the plugin in procon

 

on the ban list are only the bans from our server which we have made by ourself

 

sry for my bad english

Ok.. Do you have more than one server?

 

The idea of this plugin is that if you have 3 servers managed by procon, each running this plugin, then when you ban PlayerA on server 1, that ban will be applied to servers 2 and 3 also..

 

If you have just one server then the plugin won't do much..

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Originally Posted by VAM*:

 

i have put the plugin to the plugin folder from our procon server and activated the plugin in procon

 

on the ban list are only the bans from our server which we have made by ourself

 

sry for my bad english

Ok.. Do you have more than one server?

 

The idea of this plugin is that if you have 3 servers managed by procon, each running this plugin, then when you ban PlayerA on server 1, that ban will be applied to servers 2 and 3 also..

 

If you have just one server then the plugin won't do much..

ahhh ... for "Multiserver ADMINS" only ....

you must have more then one server .... i have only one, not recommended for me!

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Originally Posted by powerbits*:

 

i thought this was a plugin wich would share a dbase between all procon users... some hacker banned on my server would ban it on all other servers of the procon users...

Ofcourse i understand the sensitivity of this all, you need to have fair admins

 

Then again, it would be great no?

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Originally Posted by homer2123*:

 

ah i thought that the plugin do this :

 

if i run the plugin then all other guys wo have running these plugin get my bans on their banlist and i get the banlist from their server to my banlist

is this possible to make ?

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

ah i thought that the plugin do this :

 

if i run the plugin then all other guys wo have running these plugin get my bans on their banlist and i get the banlist from their server to my banlist

is this possible to make ?

Essentially yes :mrgreen:

 

My next step (I was hoping for people to report back with 'Yay it works great' or 'If I do this ... it breaks') is to implement the mysql functionality.. The code is sitting there, just not activated yet..

 

One of the drawbacks will be that there needs to be someone willing to fork out a mysql database for everyone to use.. I'm not sure if there is someone willing to do that..

 

There then is also the possible issue of manipulating the ban list.. It would have to be done with extreme caution, since I could add a ban for Phogue, just because I don't like him, which would result in him being banned across multiple servers he's never even heard of..

 

If the user is aware of this though, and still willing to use it, then it could be quite a powerful tool :!:

 

The mysql functionality will also allow for people with multiple servers, that don't all run under the same instance of procon to share bans..

 

My third implementation is to include a pb ban file that is an amalgamation of multiple pb ban sources into a single record.. Thus keeping servers up to date with as many pb bans as possible. :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by micovery*:

 

homer2123 wrote:ah i thought that the plugin do this :

 

if i run the plugin then all other guys wo have running these plugin get my bans on their banlist and i get the banlist from their server to my banlist

 

 

 

is this possible to make ?

 

Essentially yes :mrgreen:

Enforcing bans by proxy is very dangerous. You should only be able to ban people for servers which you are responsible for. Some rules I can think of:

 

1. As user, by running the plugin, you automatically agree to share your bans with everybody else

2. As user, by running the plugin, you must list which servers you want to accept bans from (enforced by proxy)

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

homer2123 wrote:ah i thought that the plugin do this :

 

if i run the plugin then all other guys wo have running these plugin get my bans on their banlist and i get the banlist from their server to my banlist

 

 

 

is this possible to make ?

 

Essentially yes :mrgreen:

Enforcing bans by proxy is very dangerous. You should only be able to ban people for servers which you are responsible for. Some rules I can think of:

 

1. As user, by running the plugin, you automatically agree to share your bans with everybody else

2. As user, by running the plugin, you must list which servers you want to accept bans from (enforced by proxy)

Yeah I agree there would need to be some strict warnings in place..

 

A few ideas off the top of my head:

 

1) Mysql hoster sets up individual accounts for each person wanting to share their ban list

2) Include server name ban issued on into reason for ban

3) Delegate an 'admin' that needs to 'sign off' on all bans added to the group

4) Only allow a ban to be removed after a certain time period (except for temp bans below this length)

5) Use at own risk

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Originally Posted by Pharrett*:

 

I have two servers setup with the shared banlist plugin. I notice today that in Procon I get the following error

 

Global Banlist: File read error2 System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\XXXX\Desktop\ProCon BC2\Plugins\Banlists\68.232.170.205-Bans.txt' because it is being used by another process.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize)

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path)

at PRoConEvents.CSharedBanlist.BanlistUpdate()

The error above shows on Server 1 while trying to access the banlist on Server 2. Server 2 gets the same error but with Server 1 listed instead.

 

I am running both servers on the same instance of Procon and each of them is running the shared banlist plugin.

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Originally Posted by prt3*:

 

I have two servers setup with the shared banlist plugin. I notice today that in Procon I get the following error

 

Global Banlist: File read error2 System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\XXXX\Desktop\ProCon BC2\Plugins\Banlists\68.232.170.205-Bans.txt' because it is being used by another process.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize)

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path)

at PRoConEvents.CSharedBanlist.BanlistUpdate()

The error above shows on Server 1 while trying to access the banlist on Server 2. Server 2 gets the same error but with Server 1 listed instead.

 

I am running both servers on the same instance of Procon and each of them is running the shared banlist plugin.

got the same error on 2 out of the 4 servers we run aswell yesterday

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Yeah, i'm working on a new version of this.. That error occurs when one server tries to access a bans file when another server is writing to it...

 

I've been super busy lately, but i'll get the new version up soon.

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Originally Posted by captinwizard*:

 

Yup! I am having the same problem with both our BC2 game servers. Was not sure if the real issue is with the Procon banlist function or with your plugin?

 

Banlist is not updating Game server banlist all the time. I see differance between banlist.

Unban players return to banlist after refresh?

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Originally Posted by prt3*:

 

Yeah, i'm working on a new version of this.. That error occurs when one server tries to access a bans file when another server is writing to it...

 

I've been super busy lately, but i'll get the new version up soon.

Thanks for the quick reply:smile:

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Originally Posted by Wetdog*:

 

Are servers are doing the same...when we unban someone...it bans them again.

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Originally Posted by cfour*:

 

Yeah, i'm working on a new version of this.. That error occurs when one server tries to access a bans file when another server is writing to it...

 

I've been super busy lately, but i'll get the new version up soon.

Has this been fixed?

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Yeah, i'm working on a new version of this.. That error occurs when one server tries to access a bans file when another server is writing to it...

 

I've been super busy lately, but i'll get the new version up soon.

Has this been fixed?

Not yet unfortunately. I understated the 'super busy'.

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Originally Posted by QUACK-Major-Pain*:

 

Doesn't seem to work anymore with latest procon update.

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Originally Posted by MorpheusX(AUT)*:

 

Doesn't seem to work anymore with latest procon update.

It works fine for me.

Although there is still the Read/Write Error, and the problem with unbanning a player.

But the rest is just ok

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Originally Posted by captinwizard*:

 

On refresh banlist will read/post into procon banlist from pbban.dat all but the latest bans? We banned a couple folks over the last few day's and their ban is written to pbban.dat file on server but on procon refresh the last few bans are not showing up in the procon banlist? Older procon pbbans do showup.