Shared Banlist [Ver 1.0.0.0 27th September]

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Originally Posted by feeblemedic*:

 

I commented out the line mentioned; have deleted the folder with the ban lists. Uninstalled plugin/reinstalled plugin. However, every time I restart procon; bans that have been deleted or expired come back on the ban list. Any guidance is appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

if the ban exists on one server, it will be copied to the other.

 

if you deleted the bans folder, then there will be no history, and it will start afresh.

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Originally Posted by propbndr*:

 

I ran into this same problem with our BC2 servers a few months back. If you stream to an anti-cheat service there are 2 ban lists for each of your servers. For example, if you use PBBans there is a "pbbans.dat" and a BanList.txt file. For some reason, even though the two files do not contain the same ban data, if you delete only one the list will repopulate itself in full. First, you need to stop all of your servers (including ProCon) at the GSP control panel, delete all of the ban lists, then restart all of your servers (restart ProCon last). If you fail to stop all of your servers before deleting, the ban lists will repopulate themselves. The pbbans.dat file will be reloaded from your streaming service. When you restart ProCon, you should now find that the ban list is blank.

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Originally Posted by feeblemedic*:

 

I ran into this same problem with our BC2 servers a few months back. If you stream to an anti-cheat service there are 2 ban lists for each of your servers. For example, if you use PBBans there is a "pbbans.dat" and a BanList.txt file. For some reason, even though the two files do not contain the same ban data, if you delete only one the list will repopulate itself in full. First, you need to stop all of your servers (including ProCon) at the GSP control panel, delete all of the ban lists, then restart all of your servers (restart ProCon last). If you fail to stop all of your servers before deleting, the ban lists will repopulate themselves. The pbbans.dat file will be reloaded from your streaming service. When you restart ProCon, you should now find that the ban list is blank.

I finally got it. Had to delete the ban lists from the plugin folder, remove the plugin, delete the server ban lists file, (I never found the bans in the pbbans.dat file). and restart pbbans on the servers.

 

The problem with your method to resolve this issue is that I often want to restart procon without having to restart 4 full 64 player servers and kick 256 players. Restarting the game servers every time I want to restart procon is simply not an option.

 

Zaeed:

Deleting the ban list from the server itself, and deleting the ban list found in the plugin folder does not resolve this issue. I stream to pbbans and gccstream. However, when I attempted to search for these bans on the pbbans.dat file none of the bans were found. I'm not sure where they were hiding...I assume it was in pb memory or something...because it required me doing the above; then restarting punkbuster on the server (full servers so I didn't want to do a full game server restart).

 

I really want the functionality of this plugin but this issue currently prevents me from running it because this process must be repeated any time I wanted to restart procon.

 

**Something else seems to be up also though; because now, even though I have rebuilt my ban lists and re-added it to each server ban list through a text editor...the bans re-added through the text editor do not show on procon's ban list tab...even after a procon restart and many, many refreshes of the list.

 

I appreciate your effort on making this plugin; it is really useful and I'll be checking back to see if this issue of removed bans being re-added to the ban list on procon restart (without doing all of the above) is resolved.

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Originally Posted by propbndr*:

 

You don't have to restart your game servers every time you restart ProCon. They are independent of each other. I said to stop all of the servers so that an active one would not repopulate the one you just deleted when you restarted it. As far as the pbbans.dat file, you delete the entire file on each server. PBbans will reload it after you restart the server. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to shutdown a full server. Either that or wait until they are empty to fix your problem.

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Originally Posted by CptChaos*:

 

You don't have to restart your game servers every time you restart ProCon. They are independent of each other. I said to stop all of the servers so that an active one would not repopulate the one you just deleted when you restarted it. As far as the pbbans.dat file, you delete the entire file on each server. PBbans will reload it after you restart the server. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to shutdown a full server. Either that or wait until they are empty to fix your problem.

If you have PunkBuster console access (which most admins should have), you could also trigger pb_sv_restart on the PunkBuster console on that server. No need to restart the server or Procon itself. Restarting PunkBuster itself will do.

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Originally Posted by propbndr*:

 

Doing a PB restart will work for the streaming services ban lists but not for the ban list that ProCon normally uses as part of the rcon. That is part of the game itself. As I said previously, I had the same problem with my BC2 servers and the steps I listed is what I had to go through to fix the issue. As a matter of fact, I think is was Zaeed that helped me work through that problem.

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Originally Posted by osiRiS*:

 

Any word of this going into a mysql DB as I'm finding trying to run this over 50+ servers just causes the plugin to break after 3-4 days. Restarting procon fixes this but still... it would be nice for it to get to a workable level for long periods of time.

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Originally Posted by leibhold*:

 

MorpheusX(AUT) is working on sql version. No word as yet on beta. Though he is a fast coder... so next year 8-)

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Originally Posted by MorpheusX(AUT)*:

 

MorpheusX(AUT) is working on sql version. No word as yet on beta. Though he is a fast coder... so next year 8-)

On it, but a bit limited in ressources now (due to my graphics card taking an arrow to the knee >.

Basic ban-checking should work by now, but not adding. I hope to get a new card mid of next week, so I can add that quickly and maybe throw out a beta-testing release.

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Originally Posted by osiRiS*:

 

Would be keen to get in on the beta testing if you need a large scale tester.

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Originally Posted by feeblemedic*:

 

roger that same here, and much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Sorry guys, i've been away at a music festival the last few days. I currently need to sort through 17,000 ish photos.

 

I'll be out of action for the next few days still..

 

I haven't forgotten about this.

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Originally Posted by ADKGamers*:

 

I would be willing to test this as well if needed. Having 5 servers it sucks adding bans to every single server.

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Originally Posted by LtMatt81*:

 

I'd like to test/try this. Where is the download link please?

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Originally Posted by Qtr_Cask*:

 

Definitely interested in this... we have 20+ servers worldwide so a shared ban list would be awesome.

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Originally Posted by osiRiS*:

 

I would be willing to test this as well if needed. Having 5 servers it sucks adding bans to every single server.

Trying running 50 of them

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Originally Posted by bFe90*:

 

Hey, i use this plugin to sync bans for 21 servers.

Sometimes the bans dont sync, and sometimes if i restart procon, old bans appear, and the new ones are gone.

 

Any tips?

Bump.

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Originally Posted by kayjay*:

 

Has the download link for this been removed, or is it just me needing a pair of glasses?

 

Edit: Never mind me.. found it in the Packages in Procon. A bit too early for me, my brain hasn't activated properly yet.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Bump.

Not sure, wait for the new version

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Originally Posted by Frakkas*:

 

I am probably being a dolt - but I don't see a Packages area anywhere while connected to my layer server. Where can I get the files for this?

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Originally Posted by kayjay*:

 

I am probably being a dolt - but I don't see a Packages area anywhere while connected to my layer server. Where can I get the files for this?

Go to the "start page" in Procon. Right above all the news you'll see two buttons, one saying "News feed" and the other one "Packages".

Click "packages" and use the list of packages available or the search field..

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Originally Posted by dungeonseeker*:

 

Gotta problem with this, i have 6 servers running through a hosted Procon layer (hosted by gameservers.com). I have installed this pugin onto the master server and enabled it across all 6 of my servers,, on 5 of them it seems to be working perfectly but one one of them it keeps giving me this message in console

 

Code:

Global Banlist: File read error1 System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'c:\games\217_163_26_113_17010\958604\procon\Plugins\Banlists\81.19.208.21-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()

Any ideas whats wrong?

 

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Yeah, known problem.. I'm free this weekend (crazy shit) so this is my main goal

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Originally Posted by dungeonseeker*:

 

Yeah, known problem.. I'm free this weekend (crazy shit) so this is my main goal

I have a suspicion the problem might actually be caused by our Procon Layer Hosting.

 

When i ordered the service the small print said one layer can cover up to 5 game servers and seeing as i ordered 6 game servers i'm assuming this means i have 2 separate layers from them, one connected to 5 servers and another connected to 1 server.

 

I reckon the first layer is using the plugin across its 5 connected servers and when the second layer tries to use the plugin it cannot because its already in use by the first layer.

 

Obviously i could be totally wrong here but thats the only reason i can see as to why it would say the banlist is in use by another process.

 

Maybe some multi thread support might fix the issue? if thats even possible with a procon plugin?

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

The problem is two servers attempting to access the same file. it could happen with just 2 servers..

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Originally Posted by 1R0NS1DE*:

 

Global Banlist: File read error2 System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'c:\games\8_3_7_140_17000\957287\procon\Plugins\Ba nlists\173.199.80.31-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()

 

 

 

^^ i keep getting this error

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Originally Posted by MorpheusX(AUT)*:

 

On behalf of Zaeed: please bother reading at least the posts on this site (I'm not even speaking of the ones before).

You would figure out that this is a known bug, and even find an explanation why it occurrs.

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Originally Posted by Pale*:

 

This has just started happening to me too. Well I just noticed it. The green plugin icon is a bit grey too, I guess from the error .

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Originally Posted by Pale*:

 

Ok other funnies too.

 

"admin/banlist" on the game server keeps losing names. When I turn off Shared Banlist the names suddenly reappear in a different order