Kicks and Bans

Kick a user

You can kick a users temporarily from the hub, so user will not be able to rejoin until a number of seconds will expire. This time is set in tban_kick variable in the hub configuration and default value is set to 5 minutes (600 seconds). You can kick someone using:

!kick <nick> <reason>

where is the nickname in user list and it's a message to tell him why he was moved away from the hub. For example to kick 'Mario' because he isn't sharing forbidden files use:

!kick Mario You are sharing forbidden file. Please read rules next time!

In this way all users of the hub will see the kick in the message bar of the client. If you don't want a public kick message to show in the chat window, use

!hidekick <nickname1> <nickname2> ...

With this command you specify a user or a list of nicknames (separated with space) and feature will be enable until you restart the hub or use:

!unhidekick <nickname1> <nickname2> ...

Alternatively you can also set the configuration variable hide_all_kicks to 1 to hide all kick message.

You can change the duration of the kick altering tban_kick value that represents the length of time (in seconds) people must wait to rejoin. Default to 300 seconds

Drop

You can disconnect a user without kicking or banning him using:

!drop <nickname>

you don't need to provide a reason.

Bans

There are various ways to ban users from the hub. They are shown below.

Temporarily banning a user

You can temporarily bans a nickname or IP. You can do it specifying with ban command the time units that are available to you. They are illustrated in this table:

Time unit	Abbreviation
Second	s
Minute	m
Hour	h
Day	d
Week	w
Month	M
Year	y

So just append the time unit after any of the ban commands, with an underscore seperating them. For example, to temporarily ban someone for 2 weeks, use:

!ban_2w Mario You have been temporarily banned because of share!!

You can append _time at the end of ALL ban commands that will be explained next. You can also append _time in the ban reason if you want and VerliHub will perform the same trick.

You can also set the maximum length of time (in seconds) an OP can ban someone for. Just change the tban_max variable

Ban nickname

To ban a nickname there are two commands. You can use:

!bannick <nick> <reason>

or

!ban <nick> <reason>

To ban the user temporarily use the same trick as described in Temporarily banning a user.

If you want to ban the IP of a user you just kicked and remember only the nickname use:

!banip this nick <nick> <reason>

And VerliHub will ban for you the IP.

Wrong password ban

You can specify the ban time in minutes if registered user provides a wrong password changing the pwd_tmpban variable.

Advanced ban methods

Ban a IP

There are two commands to ban an IP address. The first is

!ban <ip> <reason>

and the second is

!banip <ip> <reason>

These commands perform the same action and will ban IP permanently, it does not matter which one you use.

To ban IP temporarily use the same trick as described in Temporarily banning a user.

Banning a range of IP addresses

There are two ways to ban a range of IP addresses. The first way is to specify a range of IP addresses to ban using:

!banrange <ipmin>..<ipmax> <reason>

The second way is to ban the subnet. To do this you can specify the IP and the subnet mask to ban, using the command

!banrange <ip>/<left_mask_bits> <reason>

Ban IP and nickname at same time

You can ban IP and nickname at same time using kick command. Simply add _BAN_ in the kick reason. For example to ban Mario permanently for sharing forbidden files use:

!kick Mario You are sharing forbidden file. Please read rules next time!_BAN_

You can also temporarily ban a user by appending to _BAN_ the time ban with the time unit. For example for a 2 day ban you should use:

!kick Mario You are sharing forbidden file. Please read rules next time!_BAN_2d.

Refers to Temporarily banning a user to see available time units.

Ban a hostname

In order to ban a hostname you need to configure dns_lookup variable. Please check List of variables page for a full explanation of config var. To understand the commands you need to know that DNS address is composed of different level. For example:

someuglynumbers.provider.whatever.com

• .com represents the first level of the hostname
• whatever.com represents the second level
• provider.whatever.com represents the third level

Commands are summarized in this table:

!banhost1 <hostname> <reason> : This will ban the first level of the given DNS (in the example .com)

!banhost2 <hostname> <reason> : This will ban the second level of the given DNS (in the example whatever.com)

!banhost3 <hostname> <reason> : This will ban the third level of the given DNS (in the example, provider.whatever.com)

!banhostr1 <hostname> <reason> : Bans the leftmost part of the hostname (in the example "someuglynumbers")

Remember that if you have a slow DNS server this can slow down the hub (if you enable dns_lookup)

Ban a nick prefix

To ban a nickname prefix, use the command:

!banprefix <nick_prefix> <reason>

This will affect the performance of users joining the hub, the more prefixes you ban the slower it will be

Ban share size

To ban a share size, use the command:

!banshare <exact_share_size_in_bytes> <reason>

Getting information on bans

If you want to get information about a ban, there is this command:

!infoban <nick_or_ip_or_whatever>

This method will try to list all possible matches for what you entered as keyword. If you want to search a specific type of ban you can use these three commands:

!infobannnick <nick>
!infobanip <ip>
!infobanrange <any_ip_in_the_range>

To see all latest bans use:

!lsban <limit>

where is the maximum number of results you want to display

You can show all current bans with these three commands:

!infoban_ipban_ : Shows all current IP bans

!infoban_nickban_ : Shows all current nickbans

!infoban_banrange_ : Shows all current banned ranges. Very good for showing the ranges you might have forgotten you banned

Remove a ban

When you remove a ban you need to provide a reason, even a dot "." is allowed. The unbans are stored in database, and operators can view them. This is a list of the various unban commands:

!unban <ip_or_nick> <unban_reason> : Standard method for removing bans

!unbanip <ip> <unban_reason> : Will remove only existing bans for IP

!unbannick <nick> <unban_reason> : Removes nickname bans

!unbanhost1 <hostname> <unban_reason> : Removes a first level hostname ban

!unbanhost2 <hostname> <unban_reason> : Removes a second level hostname ban

!unbanhost3 <hostname> <unban_reason> : Removes a third level hostname ban

!unbanhostr1 <hostname> <unban_reason> : Removes the leftmost part of a hostname ban

!unbanprefix <prefix> <unban_reason> : Removes a nickname prefix ban

!unbanshare <exact_share_in_bytes> <unban_reason> : Removes a share size ban

!unbanrange <low IP value>..<high IP value> <unban_reason> : Removes a range of IP bans

!unban _nickban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current nickbans

!unban _ipban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current ipbans

!unban _shareban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current sharebans

!unban _rangeban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current rangebans

!unban _tempban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current tempbans

!unban _hostban_ <reason> : Removes ALL current hostbans