Whois Plugin - Version 3.8 - Overview
Filename: plugin_blatt_whois
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Overview
The Whois plugin keeps a record of all players that have played on your server.
It can provide details on the different names they have played under, the frequency
at which they play and their relative performance when there is and isn't an
administrator present. It can also detect players connecting from the same
IP address but with different WONIDs so you can tell when a banned player
returns with a new WONID, and it can mediate which players are required to use
Cheating-Death.
Main features:
- In-game reporting
- Browse whois database from the web
- Integration with HLGuard
- Tracks your admins' suspicions on individual players
- Cross-references IP addresses and Names to detect banned players rejoining
- Reports on players rejoining after being temp banned or kicked, or leaving
then rejoining with a different name
- Spots players connecting from the same IP address or subnet
- Logs repeated or suspicious team kills
- Cheating-Death mediation - the plugin will determine when a player needs to use Cheating-Death
Watching Players
You can add a "watch" to a player. When a player with a watch enabled joins your
server, all administrators connected will be notified that they should watch the
player. Similarly if an administrator connects whilst players that have watches
are already connected, the administrator is warned to use the bbwhois_watch command
to list the players to watch.
Administrators can add and remove watches as necessary, and the plugin can
automatically add them when a player is connecting from the same IP range as
a player that has already been banned. HL Guard can also add watches against players it suspects
of using an aimbot, and watched players will be required to use Cheating-Death.
Data Storage
The plugin utilises a hash function to split player information among
a large number of files rather than storing it in a single text file or in
an in-memory data structure. This means you can use it for a long period of
time and retrive player information without adding significant lag to your server.
All data files are stored in XML format. This means that the data is easily
accessible to external applications, and also means you can open them in a browser
for a full report on each player. (IE6 / Mozilla 1.03 / Netscape 7 / Opera 7 required).
The plugin also includes an indexing script to build a search page for the player
database allowing you to publish it on a website or just search outside the game on the
local machine.
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