@manwe - the value itself does not matter in matching banned IPs. The `integer` `1` is chosen for size (4 bytes), any `string` has `char*` (4-bytes), `length` (4 bytes) plus the number of bytes in the value. The default config has a single banning mode and you can set a different value on other cases that you add. I guess you find it useful for checking via RPC, however one can know that 1 is pike, the others are how you set them. You can also change 1 to something else as you prefer, but I think the current version is better for the default config.