Questions about banned.lst

[Asspalmer]

Can I edit banned.lst by hand (i.e. notepad) and have the changes automatically take effect, or do I have to reboot server?

Also, is there a limit to the number of banned IPs I can have?

Also any chance of wildcard bans being added in the future?

Thanks

[{ULK}_LiNuX]

WTF is wild card ban

[DxEntity]

Using Asterisks to symbolize a range of letters or numbers.

example of wildcard ban would be: Dx*

Anything starting with Dx then anything afterwards would be banned.

[crUshed420]

I'm curious about how wildcards work too, cause I can't for the life of me get it to work.

My IP address on my mta computer is 192.168.1.74

If I shut down the server, enter that ip address into my banned.lst file, then load the server again, I am banned. I can't enter.

However, If I try to use a wildcard for the ban, no such luck. No matter how I try, I can't ban myself using a wildcard... i can always enter the server. EACH time I shut down the server, modify the banned.lst file, then load the server again... so I know it refreshes the data. I have tried the following combinations:

192.168.1.*

192.168.1.1*

192.168.*

192.168.*.*

192.168*

(and many others... but you get the picture)

As well as manually entering the wildcard bans into the banned.lst file, I used the admin tool to try to ban ip 192.168.*

When I do that, it adds 192.168.

to my banned.lst file... no * or anything... but it still doesn't keep me out of the server.

I also tried using a "clean" banned.lst file (only 1 or 2 ips listed... not a big file).

How does wild card banning work??

[[KFC]KungFu]

I can wildcard ban but I use zeros maybe try that

192.000.000.000

[crUshed420]

I can wildcard ban but I use zeros maybe try that

192.000.000.000

you da man Kung Lao!! Thanks for the quick reply too!!