I just woke up to see something I could’ve expected, but not after the time it took them to find it… At all, I’ve posted my nice RCON plugin which bans on 3 bad attempts on the 23th of May and was rather convinced to get a forum ban back there… But see what popped up for me when I was about to join the forums:
So in the end, it doesn’t seem like some of the useful plugins are accepted. Everyone can obtain the sampmysql or irc-plugins, but to prevent bruteforcing of your server and in the end protecting your rcon access is NOT allowed? To me, that doesn’t seem correct. Even although I needed some disassembling to find the correct memory locations, it would be dare easy for everyone to just search in the string list for “Bad rcon attempt”…
Noone seemed to care the link is still available, I was banned without removing the link… might be useful to others? I believe so, why would they remove a useful link? It’s just I’ve made something a lot of server owners enjoy to see and what the SA:MP Team didn’t put in… but nevermind.
I wonder, is my license to host SA:MP servers revoked now? At all, I don’t own a server hosting company since some days, and I haven’t got any email regarding that.
Besides the point, yet another e-drama happened yesterday, when Kye came to GTANet just to get Peter away from SA:MP… But I might go in detail later, until now it doesn’t seem like kye wants to have a huge userbase playing it.
In conclusion, I’d strongly encourage you to use forum.sa-mp.co.uk, and if you experience a lot of rcon attacks, consider my rcon plugin - you need the filterscript from the complete package, and then a dll/so file for your architecture.
You might also want to read Peter’s (and some other people’s view). This has been deleted, thus granting LVP official status again.
cheers
mabako