Custom login server
Thanks to Kekers for all his help with various things (too many to count 😛 ).
Description
This Knight Online login server supports the following things (that are not found in the original login server):
- NOW SUPPORTS 1.310! *NEW!*
- NOW IMPLEMENTS MY BILLING SERVER! *NEW!*
- Supports Windows Server 2008, and presumably Windows Vista! (However, the latter will need to be confirmed. (LONG confirmed, works fine on Windows 7 [x64 too!] as well)...),
- News support (this is the news that shows up in your client right after logging in!),
- Dynamic server-list (including the currently logged in player counts [the bar] which I may provide a guide on how to make the count accurate for your server),
- Real-time updates to news & server-list,
- IP ban support (now supports the disabling of this feature - if you're having problems! *NEW!*),
- Automated IP bans for different types of attack recognition,
- Ability to change the port (via configuration),
- Log levels to define what gets outputted (NOTE: The higher the log level, the more output will be generated, and the slower the login server will operate. This is covered in the configuration file.),
- Supports the use of MD5 hashes INCLUDING the use of hash seeds! (var/char column - var/binary isn't supported. For that you will need to use a "custom" T-SQL function),
- Now supports the use of stored procedures, such as the original... (but not recommended..)
- Now supports the in-built use of SHA1 hashes,
- Now supports the use of custom T-SQL functions for password hashes,
- Now has the ability to easily change KO's packet header/footer - you should not have to use it at all, but I did have one person who asked for it 😛 ,
- Erm.. it doesn't use the ACCOUNT_LOGIN procedure, or talks to the database at all upon user request (it instead, caches data for later use) (* this isn't exactly true in 1.10, it will if you use a custom T-SQL function for password hashing... otherwise, it won't at all!),
- Again, erm.. doesn't use a GUI! Hooray for console applications!
