Ip Banned

[Deeebo]

Ok yeah I'm a dumb#$%... I run a teamspeak server and logged in as unregistered to play a joke a few friends... Ok so a friend saw that I was just being annoying promptly ip banned me. So I load up the administation on the server you cannot unban any ip or add an ip ban. So I go searching thru config files and see the ip that is mine and erase it. Now what ??? It changed everyones password so noone registered could get in, and I still have my ip banned. Ok I get him to unban me and I go to log back on to the superadmin and now what?? I cant log in there either. So a lesson learned, 1. Carefull who you give SA status too and 2. Tell your friends when you play are going to play a joke on someone.

I guess I would be asking is there a way to unban yourself when you are ip banned by your mods.. thanks for any input, Deeebo

[NovaDude]

I hope someone can help out here.

I am also wondering why a superadmin can be IP banned.
I think that even when you are IP banned on your own server.
superadmins should have some sort of Force Log in which skips the IP check or something.

It is kinda sad to be banned from your own server and absolutely loose control over it.

All you could do is get them to unban you, or copy your Database and reinstall the server, which is a sucky option.

[Brain]

superadmins aren't IP banned... it's the IP ban you got on yourself when you were banned as an unregistered user.
Appearantly this is also enforced for the webadmin interface if that was where you tried to log in. Your description is kind of vague in that sense.

[NovaDude]

Okay let me rephrase it all then, although I know we mean the same ^-^

My IP got banned while I was logged on with what ever status it would have been.

And it also checks your IP on the webadmin interface so you can not log in.

But find it that it should be a possiblity that even when your IP is banned, you should still have access as a superadmin, as this would mean it is absolutely the owner, trying to log in.

This is what you meant as well, right?

[Brain]

Ah yes, it's perfectly clear now.

Well, the bans are only by IP, so if your ISP has dynamic IP assignment (which almost every provider uses) you just need to restart your internet connect. You will get a new IP and all will be well.
In the unlikely even that doesn't help and you get the same IP again and again there is another trick. Use a public http proxy to connect to the web admin interface. The webadmin interface uses http protocol so this would work.
BUT: after doing so unban yourself, disconnect, reconnect without the proxy and change your password immediately. Credentials are transmitted plain-text and are as such visible to anybody. If you use a http proxy the danger of someone intercepting your login credentials is even higher because HTTP proxies are obvious points for listening on www traffic.

[-[BBD]-MotherFo]

and what is the lesson we learned today



DONT F WITH PEOPLE's MINDS its not funny and you will end up getting the boot :D

[MaleficSpectre]

Originally posted by NovaDude
I am also wondering why a superadmin can be IP banned.
I think that even when you are IP banned on your own server.
superadmins should have some sort of Force Log in which skips the IP check or something.

Well, one of the reasons that being a superadmin doesn't help you against ban-happy people is that superadmin isn't a part of the loggon for individual servers. Superadmin doen't have its own level in the permissions hierarchy and it isn't something that can be granted to any particular screen name. Superadmin really gives access to all of the servers operating on any particular ip, and gives full permission to do anything you want within the web admin interface. So when you loggon to your server, the server has no idea that you are a superadmin.

[NovaDude]

You mis understand.

If you have been banned on your server, and you try to log in on the webadmin interface as superadmin, it wont let you because your IP is banned.