I know from reading on the forum that banning proxy servers is tough and one at a time. I found a site which can generate code to block countries which may be major offenders and do nothing but host proxy servers. The code it generates looks like the one below or can be cdir. Is there a way to write a script which will allow admins to uses a tool like below to block know proxy IPs which we can put into our forums? If so, what would it look like and how would we install it? Doing it one by one takes too much time.

thanks

Code:

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
deny from 5.224.107.0/24
deny from 5.225.107.0/24
deny from 14.102.152.0/22
deny from 27.50.16.0/20
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Please in the future when you have a long code place it in the [code] tags. Could you post the link to the site that can generate this code?

SLGray wrote:Please in the future when you have a long code place it in the [code] tags. Could you post the link to the site that can generate this code?

sorry, I was not aware that I should do that. This is the site that I used for the above code. http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker

You can just copy-paste the list of IP-s
You can find here a list:
http://www.hidemyass.com/proxy-list/
But this is the most useless thing to waste your time with, since almost every kid today knows how to fake an IP To be sure, you can only ban all the proxy servers in the world and you will be safe and alone in your forum

I would not do this like Ina says. You will be blocking good and bad members at the same time.

Useful information on blocking spammers can be found @ https://www.projecthoneypot.org/

yeah you will end up blocking ip that are not even corrupt sooner or latter.
Plus with VPN IP changers and Tor these days, there is not much you can do, there are literately hundreds and thousands of proxies, all someone has to do is juts refresh their VPN or Tor and they will be given a new one in seconds.

All you can do is ban everything as you go along, IP user name and email. And if you are really having a problem to where people keep coming back. Then the Dog House method would be the best way to go.

I think Darren1 has a post here explaining my dog house method, if not i will have to type it up again, and may be even put as an official post fro FAQ after running it by sanket

Ina wrote:
But this is the most useless thing to waste your time with, since almost every kid today knows how to fake an IP To be sure, you can only ban all the proxy servers in the world and you will be safe and alone in your forum

HAHA Very well put

kirk wrote:yeah you will end up blocking ip that are not even corrupt sooner or latter.
Plus with VPN IP changers and Tor these days, there is not much you can do, there are literately hundreds and thousands of proxies, all someone has to do is juts refresh their VPN or Tor and they will be given a new one in seconds.

All you can do is ban everything as you go along, IP user name and email. And if you are really having a problem to where people keep coming back. Then the Dog House method would be the best way to go.

I think Darren1 has a post here explaining my dog house method, if not i will have to type it up again, and may be even put as an official post fro FAQ after running it by sanket

Ina wrote:
But this is the most useless thing to waste your time with, since almost every kid today knows how to fake an IP To be sure, you can only ban all the proxy servers in the world and you will be safe and alone in your forum

HAHA Very well put

koimaster wrote:

Thanx koimaster
don't get me wrong I am sure it would still work to a certain extent, but would also be a never ending battle.
But anything is worth a try and some people here and there, So best to have it help some then no one at all

Thanks, I would love to read this dog house method. We average about 2500 visits a day with unique IPs but recently we have a a battle with trolls and some who are members of warez and hacker forums. So I want to do the best I can to protect the 1000+ members of the forum. This is the forum http://watchlords.forumotion.net/forum
We have become a regular stop for watch collectors. It is one of the reasons which is another topic, that I would love to be able to purchase my backups or pay for my daily ones.

I also have the current security measures in place that forumotion recommends as a starter.

koimaster wrote:Thanks, I would love to read this dog house method. We average about 2500 visits a day with unique IPs but recently we have a a battle with trolls and some who are members of warez and hacker forums. So I want to do the best I can to protect the 1000+ members of the forum. This is the forum http://watchlords.forumotion.net/forum
We have become a regular stop for watch collectors. It is one of the reasons which is another topic, that I would love to be able to purchase my backups or pay for my daily ones.

I also have the current security measures in place that forumotion recommends as a starter.

right i have could of sworn i told you about it in the past, and it is not 100% but found it to help me in the past.

basically what it comes down to is for you to have welcome,introduction form where all new members have to post/say hello/introduce their self's first in order to gain access to the rest of the forum, what this will do is allow you to check i[p and see if the ip is coming from any other member you have in the dag house.

The dawg house is nothing more then a hidden group you place members in with no permissions to anything on the forum.. You don't ban them, they are just stuck in there, and when they try to come back with new ip or whatever. when the post on the welcome board and yo check their ip you will see if it comes up with other user names or other in they may have ever posted with, and know if they are in the dog house group or not, if they are you just put them right back in the group again, and do not allow them access to the rest of the forum. And the members that do check out, then you place them in a members group that dose have access to the forum. Once again it is not 100% but i found it to work for me in the past for spammers and trolls,.. Sooner or latte they will get sick of being put in the group and just move on, or at least that is the plan... LMAO

You can even create one forum they have access to for posting if they need to ask any questions or try to defend them self to get out??? But that is pretty much it in a nut shell

Now of course there are a couple down falls. If they message you and ask for the account to be deleted or use the unsubscribe tool then you have to honor that, but i am sure most would not even bother. And i mean there are loop holes and you may not be able to determine right way and have to give then access to members group, but as soon as the slip up and do something against you rules just place in there. after doing this for a while you see it will help.

Thanks for sharing Koimaster, this may be useful for some forum admins. Although I don't ban IP addresses and never have done.
As most IPs are Dynamic not static IPs and Dynamic IPs constantly change.
So the user could just come back with a different IP,also you could be blocking out other innocent users.

Kirk's Doghouse method is best. You need to create a usergroup for all members. Then set their permissions so they are able to view the forums and post. Then put all of the members in it.

Then in all of your forums and categories un-tick posting permissions for members. Then if you want, you could create a new section on the forum for new members(call it something like new members forum) that's not visible to guests only forum members. Then have new members post there at least that's what I do.(You should also set the new members section up so that members cannot edit or delete their posts once published.)

That way you can check their IPs which can be seen in each post.
If the member checks out okay you can then add then to the members usergroup. They will then be able to post in other sections of your forum,same the other members can.
But if the IPs or posts are not okay then you can just ban or delete that user.
You could also set activation of new user accounts or registrations by admin only.
Then all new users registering on your forum have would be activated by the admins,not by the member. Then you can approve or delete the account.

First I heard of this but thanks. I do require that members post an intro within 5 days bit I guess I need to enforce it more strictly.

thanks Kirk and everyone else.

Is this solved?

solved if I can ask one question. I have over 1000 users broken down into groups with different permissions. How can I set up a dog house forum for users who I do not want to see the forum at all or how can I move all of these groups with various permissions into one over all group allowed to see the forum yet keep the group permissions in place. I am not certain it can be done.

Koimaster wrote:Solved if I can ask one question. I have over 1000 users broken down into groups with different permissions. How can I set up a dog house forum for users who I do not want to see the forum at all or how can I move all of these groups with various permissions into one over all group allowed to see the forum yet keep the group permissions in place. I am not certain it can be done.

Yes it can be done.
You just have to move all of the users who you want to restrict their posting rights,out of the other groups,then into the restricted usergroup.
There is no limit to how many members you can have in one group.

I want to thank everyone. I have put a dog house in place and am now shifting users into it.

Have a good holiday