Bans Not Working

[Quitcherbitchin]

Greetings all...

I had piggy backed this question on a different post a few days ago, but it's been lost in the shuffle so I'm reposting with more details.

I am running a dedicated SRCDS server for CS:S on Windows Server 2003. I am using Mani-Admin as my admin tool. I also have Sourcemod installed to support the CSS-DM plugin.

Here's the problem. I recently had an influx of noobs who were there only to cause trouble, so I perma-banned them. Then, five seconds later, they're right back into the game with the same STEAM ID. I immediately went to the banned_user.cfg file and their STEAM IDs were there. So, I banned their IPs. Same thing. Their IPs show up in the banned_ip.cfg file, but they can still get in.

I even performed a manual ban directly from the console (not via RCON) and still nothing.

I have the following four lines in my server.cfg file and they execute every map change.

writeid
exec banned_user.cfg
writeip
exec banned_ip.cfg

I have found similar references to this dating back to 2005, so I know I'm not the only one this has happened to. Please be kind enough to share any information you might have on this topic.

If you need any additional information to help, I'll gladly provide it.

Thanks in advance!

[Drocona]

To be honest, I seriously have no idea..

[Spartanfrog]

Yeah sorry thats the same with me. The only thing I can think of is running verify_all.

[Quitcherbitchin]

I solved my own problem. As it turns out, it was the server.cfg file. I had been using a modified sample file I found on the Internet (stupid me). I ended up using one of the many websites available to generate a server.cfg from a set of pull-down menus, dropped the server.cfg it generated into my servers and voila!

I compared the file generated by the website I used with the file I had been using and aside from 4 or 5 variables, they were the same except for the order of the parameters. I verified this solution by dropping my original server.cfg file back in and once again the bans wouldn't work, so there's no doubt that it was the source of the problem. Why? I have no freaking idea.

I hope this info helps somebody else out, because I know it was a pain in my arse for close to two months.

[Drocona]

Do you have the old .cfg (the one that didn't work), if so can you zip and add it as attachment here?

[blik]

Quitcherbitchin Wrote:writeid
exec banned_user.cfg
writeip
exec banned_ip.cfg

I think that was the problem...

Should be:

Code:

exec banned_user.cfg
exec banned_ip.cfg
writeip
writeid

The writes should follow the execs afaik...

[Quitcherbitchin]

I'll post my configs later, but that definitely wasn't the problem. I tried those four lines in every possible combination and it didn't matter what order they were in. Since the server.cfg executes every map change, you would want to write the bans in memory to the banned_user/ip.cfg file before executing them. If there is nothing new in memory, then you write nothing new to the ban files.

[Ghost Assassin]

If you have a command called, sv_filterban, make sure it is set to 1 or else bans won't work. If you don't have that command, then bans should work. It took me a while to figure out why my bans didn't work, turns out it was all in the server.cfg.