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Extended Ban Mod for Minetest

• It supports normal bans and temporary bans (from 60 seconds up to the end of time, with 1 second granularity).
• Records and joins all accounts using the same IP address and several IP addresses using the same name into a single record, and can ban/unban them as a single user.
• Can ban offline players if you know their IP or username.
• Holds a record of bans for each user, so moderators and administrators can consult it to know if a player is a repeat offender.
• Does not modify the default ban database in any way (`ipban.txt').
• Has an API to ban and check the ban database to allows other mods to manage users (for example, anticheat mods).

/xban <player_or_ip> <reason>

/xtempban <player_or_ip> <time> <reason>

• 1s - Ban for one second.
• 1m - Ban for one minute.
• 1h - Ban for one hour.
• 1D - Ban for one day (24 hours).
• 1W - Ban for one week (7 days).
• 1M - Ban for one month (30 days).
• 1Y - Ban for one year (360 days).

/xunban <player_or_ip>

/xban_record <player_or_ip>

/xban_dbi <importer>

• "minetest" - Import ban list from `ipban.txt' (Minetest ban database).
• "v1" - Import ban list from `players.iplist' (xban v1 database).

LazyJ wrote:Is this compatible with the previous version of "xban's" files, kaeza?

• Has a saner DB format (using a minetest.(de)serialize-compatible format.
• Fixes an old bug where some users were not actually getting banned under some circumstances.
• As said above, ban record :)
• It's title says v2! so it must be better than v1! the internet said it, so it must be true!

• Added `/xban_record' command to list players' ban records.
• The mod now saves the last position of the banned player (if they are online). The `/xban_record' command also shows the last known position of the player, if available.

• Fixed an ugly bug that could cause unwanted bans on servers. It is recommended to delete the database and start anew, or run this script in the standalone Lua interpreter (get it from your favorite package manager, or from here) to purge duplicate entries. Thanks to Zeno` for testing :)
• Added importer for old v2 database format. Thanks to LazyJ for helping with testing :)

• Fixed temporary bans not working at all (the function responsible for removing expired bans was not being run).
• The `/xban_record` command now lists the ban "source". The "source" is the player or mod that performed the ban (the source was always stored in the database, but the report did not include it).

kaeza wrote:Yes it is. The database has no circular references or anything hidden, so simply removing a name or IP from an entry disassociates it from the "user".

redblade7 wrote:Could you please add the ability to ban IP ranges? Currently the only way to do this is iptables which can cause massive server lag if the range is too large.

redblade7 wrote:

redblade7 wrote:Could you please add the ability to ban IP ranges? Currently the only way to do this is iptables which can cause massive server lag if the range is too large.

Actually the "massive server lag" was another issue I dealt with some time ago, see other posts. Still it would be nice to have IP range bans.

Question: Is this compatible with IPv6? My ISP doesn't have IPv6 support, so I never enabled it on my servers as accessing it via IPv6 would only be possible through Microsoft's built-in gateway on my Win10 computer. IPv6 would be more effective at banning people, for those whose ISPs or mobile devices support it.