Tips against hackers

[borlaq 0]

Ok, so i am currently running a private hive, and as with all other servers, punk ass kids are ruining it with hacks.

I am desperatly needing some tips on how to deal with these.

I currently ban 10-15 ppl a week due to suspicious logs, but as it is now, i would rather just terminate my server due to all the extra work there is.

Any tips would be much appreciated.

[The Aquatic Land Walrus 565]

Report their IP.

[borlaq 0]

But having to scroll trough logs to look for what i find to be "Suspicious" takes so much time, aswell that is very innacurate. Is there any prevantive measures that can be done?

[declan223@gmail.com 271]

Whitelist? Where people have to apply by email or something

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

You could password your server. Make a forum and only people that register will have password access. That'll weed out most of them. Also use the Community Ban List as thisll stop any known hackers being able to log in at all. Run Antihax or similar too.

The well established private hive use many measures to deal with hackers and have active and knowledgable admins. The ones that don't are just as bad as the public servers.

It sounds like a pain in the ass but that's the "admin" part I guess.

Edited November 13, 2012 by Fraggle

[McGuyver 3]

I've seen some servers that have "Gotcha Anti-Hack" which claims to prevent warping of items, players, watches for godmode and esp (seeing other players on the map), should look into that, unless the people came up with that script are assholes and aren't sharing it for all servers to use.

[SmashT 10907]

A white-list will eliminate a lot of them.