---
title: "Global banlist"
description: "A shared list of cheaters caught across every Asphyxia server, and how to control what it does on yours."
---

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# Global banlist

Cheaters rarely stop at one server. The global banlist is a shared record of
accounts caught cheating anywhere on the Asphyxia network — so a cheater caught
elsewhere this morning can't join you this afternoon.

## How it works

Bans issued on individual servers are reviewed by Asphyxia moderators. Ones
that clearly show cheating are promoted to the global list. Your server
downloads that list when it starts and refreshes it every few minutes, so
newly-added bans reach you without a restart.

When someone connects, Asphyxia checks their identifiers against the global
list the same way it checks your own. A match is turned away with a ban card
that makes clear the ban is network-wide, not yours.

Only reviewed bans make it onto the list. A ban you issue on your server stays
local unless it's been through that review.

## Turning it on and off

The global banlist is controlled per-server from your dashboard's
[Global Banlist page](/website/global-bans). Switching it off means your server
downloads nothing and enforces nothing from it — your own bans are unaffected.

## Excluding a single ban

Sometimes you want the list, but not one entry on it — a player you know
personally, or someone whose ban you disagree with.

The Global Banlist page lets you exclude individual bans for your server.
Excluded bans are filtered out before the list is ever sent to you, so the
player connects normally while everyone else on the network still keeps them
out.

## What you'll see

```text
[Asphyxia.] › ✔ success Loaded 1892 ban(s) from the shared Asphyxia global banlist.
```

If the list is disabled for your server, nothing is loaded and nothing is
enforced.

## Checking a player before they join

If you want to know whether a specific person is on the list — before they've
ever connected — use [Discord Lookup](/website/discord-lookup). Enter their
Discord ID and it reports whether they're globally banned, banned on your
server, and whether they've played with you before.

Source: https://docs.asphyxia.dev/anticheat/global-banlist/index.mdx