Duelix (PC) troll horde banning on DCC's minsta server.

I just met a horde of trolls banning everyone.

They were on DCC's minsta server in Nexuiz. Players named Duelix (PC)

There was at least 5 of them + one with different name. Please help.

Here is what happened:

I was playing there for 20+ minutes with a pal from Armenia, when I realized a vote to kickban him was raised. I voted agains, but it was accepted, I checked the scoretab and saw 5 or 6 names "Duelix (PC)". I saw a chat message:

You are about to be banned.

I answered shortly ("Fcuk u!") and pressed F10.

Now (after under 10 minutes) the server is empty.

Seems like these trolls are banned by the server admin now.

Seems like these trolls are banned by the server admin now.

Good news.

I hope those who have been banned by them will be un-banned.

Sigh... I know Duelix, it's the biggest idiot I have ever seen in Nexuiz. The problem is that banning just keeps him away for about one hour because he has some tool (don't know the exact technical word for it - proxy or sth like that) to change his IP (not his range though). I only saw him on minsta servers yet, however, I do not know his fakenicks.
Yeah, it sucks. I think only banning him several times helps... or banning his range

nimbus

I can´t understand those kind of people, why can´t they simply behave and have fun playing the game?

I've banned the last range of his IP address yesterday, permanently (that means, I've written it in a cfg file, so it won't wanish).
I've also unbanned everybody yesterday, who got banned (however, they'd get auto-unbanned every morning, as the servers restart).

(however, they'd get auto-unbanned every morning, as the servers restart).

So regular bans last only one day? I thought they last forever

No, every port restarts every day around 5:30-6:00. Don't know why olli did this years ago, but I can't even change that, as that cron-job is not run by the "nexuiz" user on that host.

you could use the ban list provier to sync your bans...

Code:

//sync bans using this ban list provider:
// g_ban_sync_uri "http://94.23.21.40/~xonotic/bans/"
// accept bans that were initially set on the server IPs listed here:
//g_ban_sync_trusted_servers ""

add your server ip in g_ban_sync_trusted_servers ""

This will also sync the bans of different servers if you have several running servers with the same ip.

(however, they'd get auto-unbanned every morning, as the servers restart).

So regular bans last only one day? I thought they last forever

A kickban lasts 90 minutes. A ban lasts X seconds, admin sets X. But if the server resets it every morning it lasts max. 24 hours there.

you could use the ban list provier to sync your bans...

Code:

//sync bans using this ban list provider:
// g_ban_sync_uri "http://94.23.21.40/~xonotic/bans/"
// accept bans that were initially set on the server IPs listed here:
//g_ban_sync_trusted_servers ""

add your server ip in g_ban_sync_trusted_servers ""

This will also sync the bans of different servers if you have several running servers with the same ip.

We can't. For some unknown reason, the DCC server just can't retrieve the bans data. 1-2 years ago I tried to find the reason, it took me 3 weeks, and no solution. Shit happens.

Also, as Mirio said, normal bans last 90 minutes, but we have a config file, where we store permanent bans. There the time is set to 86400 s (=24h). That config file is reread on every server restart (every day), so the timer is reset to one day again.