banning by ip range!

[Slicky456]

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This thread is for an old version. Please read this one : http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthrea...ies-(Ip-range)

teamspeak 2 was awesome by its banning system because u were able to ban by ip range. For example.

if

93.172.181.64 was banned u could just do this

93.172.*.* and anyone connecting with 93.172 would get banned

anyway to do this on ts3?

[azzy101]

93.172.*

enable it to be understood as a regular expression.

should work.

[Peter]

This is the correct syntax, assuming you have the box "Interpret IP and Name as regular expression" checked (you need to for any wild card banning)

a, b, c and d are numbers 1-255

IP only
TS2 style: a.b.c.d
TS3 style: a\.b\.c\.d

Range of 255 IPs
TS2 style: a.b.c.*
TS3 style: a\.b\.\c\..*

Range of 255 * 255 IPs
TS2 style: a.b.*.*
TS3 style: a\.b\..*\..*

So basically to convert a TS2 ban into a TS3 ban: replace all "." with "\.", replace all "*" with ".*"

We know that, especially for people that do not know regular expressions (which is most TS users I figure), the TS3 way is complicated/confusing. We have plans to make an easier ban dialog where you can directly specify ranges to ban to ease this pain.

[azzy101]

Peter i can ban people doing it this way in the picture ( tested on myself and another person )
However your way works also.

But if my way, where i ban a.b.* with regular expression enabled, is an incorrect syntax then why does it work? the correct syntax you posted seems like to much hassle writing out the a\.b\..*\..* :P

[Stefan1200]

But if my way, where i ban a.b.* with regular expression enabled, is an incorrect syntax then why does it work?

It isn't an incorrect syntax. In regular expressions a dot (.) means any character, and a star (*) means that the character left of the star can be zero or more times. So ".*" means any character zero or more times. Thats why it works for any IP starting with "a.b".

The only problem is the dot (.) between a and b. The regular expression "a.b.*" works also for "a6b", because the dot (.) allows any character. Thats why you should escape the dot (.) if you really mean the dot.

[Zynk1000]

I need to be able to Ban a range of IP addresses. what wild cards are used for this or is there another way to do this?

[Zynk1000]

found my answer at
banning by ip range!
By Slicky456 in forum Server Support

wish it had come up in the search engine