I'd classify carpetbanning as a Denial of Service attack

[Axolotl]

Carpetbanning floods the server with ban requests, thus making it lag intensely.

In some cases, the server crashes.

This is why Badspot revokes carpetbanners' keys.

[Ad Bot]

[Bushido]

wait when did this become an issue what the forget

[Axolotl]

wait when did this become an issue what the forget

Allstarland, Psp, Mr.LoL, and many other dumbasses.

[Darkmaster20]

What is carpetbanning?

[Axolotl]

What is carpetbanning?

Flooding a server with banrequests of incrementing IDs. Usually, carpetbanning is done with TorqueScript and a for(){} loop

[Conservative]

Regular admins and super admins need some sort of delay between bans

also, this code in particular is still on the forums somewhere, some idiot posted in a topic "why you shouldn't admin people" or something like that, badspot posted on the topic after many many reports, don't think he ever got rid of it

[Awdax]

Concerning the post Conservative is talking about, I say screw it. Let people see it. It will help filter the idiots out. When they use it and try to screw up someone's server, and someone else makes a topic about it - the starfish will get their key revoked.

[TripNick]

http://www.mediafire.com/?665ah6dhq4bat9x

i fixed it for you

[Mold]

Wait what the forget
Now you can crash the server with ban
What

[Axolotl]

Wait what the forget
Now you can crash the server with ban
What

Lots and lots of ban requests sent within a second will crash the server.

http://www.mediafire.com/?665ah6dhq4bat9x

i fixed it for you

Use localhostr, I hate popups and stuffty ad-filled sites that have unreliable hosting. Also, don't say "ogm us adblok bich" because I hate Google Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

[Mold]

Lots and lots of ban requests sent within a second will crash the server.Use localhostr, I hate popups and stuffty ad-filled sites that have unreliable hosting. Also, don't say "ogm us adblok bich" because I hate Google Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

Do you have to be admin?
Sounds like a good idea.



^joking.
So you can crash servers with spam
I guess ban works good because it does so much and writes a file andstuff?

[pecon98]

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=139982.0

This has been around for a long time as a solution.

[Axolotl]

I guess ban works good because it does so much and writes a file andstuff?

I think the ban manager is a ScriptObject that reads BANLIST.txt every time a person joins.

I think the ban manager also checks the time for every tick and then unbans after the ban length is over.

Concerning the post Conservative is talking about, I say screw it. Let people see it. It will help filter the idiots out. When they use it and try to screw up someone's server, and someone else makes a topic about it - the starfish will get their key revoked.

You probably don't need to make a topic, since bans might be sent to the master server.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=139982.0

This has been around for a long time as a solution.

Good solution, but apply Awdax's and my info.

[Conservative]

Slick's, or DrenDran's add-on needs to be more noticeable

someone submit one of them to RTB

[Lugnut]

what the hell are you talking about

bans aren't sent to the master server