I should probably change that to use $db->fetch_array() will fix in the next version. (probably the vb4 compatible version)

My board has a very long list of banned ip's and we are interested in banning ranges of ip's.

I don't understand how CIDR improves upon just using the * wild card in a banned ip. e.g. 221.222.* or 221.222.0.0/16 look the same to me. Am I missing something?

We would like to be able to ban something like 221.222.131-255.* or even 221.222.131-155.*. I don't see any notation that supports this.

Currently I keep the bans in a spreadsheet so I can sort and annotate them. I then just copy the ip column into the ban list in AdminCp.

Maybe if I get used to the notation, I can figure out how to take out a large range and add back in the pieces that are OK to get to the examples above.

I wonder if there is a calculator somewhere that converts the kind of range I listed above to a set of CIDR's.

I will def install if you can add an option to ban from within posts and profiles. Cause searching for a user and then finding their IP is a pain in the butt.

When looking at your home page... replace index.php with online.php and you can see the ip addresses quite quick that way.

My request is this...if possible.

I have some super mods that I would like to give the ability to. I want to avoid making them admins but ip banning is a feature they need. Is there someway to allow this?

I have tried to give them minimal admin permissions as a secondary group and turned on Can Administer Ipbans to yes but still nothing on their admin cp

Feature Requests:
Allow banned IPs to see how long they are banned for.
Add an option to ban from within posts and profiles. Cause searching for a user and then finding their IP is a pain in the butt.

yes. You don't have to use just /16 /24 /8 and /32 you could for example use /28 which would ban a range of 16 ips
CIDRs aren't perfect, but the following ban 221.222.131.0/19 hits 221.222.128.0 - 221.222.159.255 You could leave it at that or add an exempt for 221.222.128.0/23 and 221.222.130.0/24 to protect the lower end and an exempt for 221.222.156.0/22 to protect the upper end.

The latest (vb 4 version) of this mod includes a calculator that goes from CIDR notation to range notation; in theory, if you upload the contents of the uploads folder to your 3.8 install, it should provide the extra features. (Don't import the vb4 product thou, as the mod will cease to work) I'll see how hard it would be to write a calculator to go the other way.

This might be possible by just editing the phrase... I'll look into it.

Its already on the planned feature list to allow banning from the delete as spam page; I see no reason not to include this; however the ip's will probably not be very efficiently banned. (eg it'll have to add a /32 ban for each and every ip the user uses. Trying to automatically work out a range would be VERY error prone.)

Sorry if I'm dense, but can this mod simply ban the IP address by clicking the IP address icon in the user postbit and making a selection from their? Seems like low-hanging fruit to add this feature from the beginning.

Thanks!

i'm afraid that isn't possible, but you are right, it is a fairly low hanging fruit. It'll probably be added along with the other front end integrations that i've got planned; however development time is currently going into the vb4 version of this mod; so I don't know how long it'll be until the new features i've added to that get into this version.

I've added several IPs but just noticed that in the IP ban manager page the list of IPs is all 0s

Is there a fix for this?
If you could email an answer as I'll find it hard to keep an eye on this; hallamwarriors(at)gmail.com
thanks

i have banned someone`s ip but i didnt ban him on the forum so he ca still come and post