23.02.2015, 17:49
Rcon bans are not user friendly. Not for the user getting banned and neither for the admins using it. It's extremely primitive. It just says "You are banned from this server". That's it. Custom systems give you the option to let the player know why and when he was banned. Rcon bans also only support classful rangebans which is quite annoying because ranges aren't assigned like that.
I personally use an extensive table of all the CIDR ranges in the world which gives me a lot more flexibility in enforcing bans. For example, a range from Sweden ranging from 5.150.233.0 to 5.150.255.255. Banning 5.150.233.* is not enough, banning 5.150.*.* is way too much. Ranges stored as integers, of course, for optimal speed.
I personally use an extensive table of all the CIDR ranges in the world which gives me a lot more flexibility in enforcing bans. For example, a range from Sweden ranging from 5.150.233.0 to 5.150.255.255. Banning 5.150.233.* is not enough, banning 5.150.*.* is way too much. Ranges stored as integers, of course, for optimal speed.