We have about 3400 ip wild card strings in the settings ip bans. I was wondering if there has been any progress on an import facility.

One difficult issue seems to be recognizing contiguous ip bans that cannot be expressed in the vBulletin wild card format and making them into cidr addresses.

It is a bit of coding, but it looks like one could just take the values from the settings table and convert them to entries in the ipbans table.

I tried doing it with an Excel spreadsheet and decided it would be much easier to program it in php. However, it is more work than I would want to do if it is already being done by someone.

I found a much better bulk ip to cidr calculator than the one included in the product. It's notation is different from the vB notation also (of course). The calculator is located at http://ip2cidr.com/bulk-ip-to-cidr-converter.php.

I really wish this product accepted the standard cidr notation and accepted bulk input.

All in all the ability to have exempt ip's is a critically needed benefit and I really like the product.

Does anyone have this working on 4.1.12? I'd love to implement this and block a lot of the problematic regions with which my forum will not have any dealings. ;)

Upgraded my site to 4.2. Can anyone confirm whether this works?

It works well on 4.1.12; don't know about 4.2 as i'm not running that version.

Does not appear to work for me..... Well im not 100% sure.
I have for example one ip address banned.
Yet i still get daily registration attempts that get trapped by a timer delay during registration.

I wonder. does this mod wait until registration is complete before denying the registration or at the point the ip address hits the server?
If the latter then it does not appear to be working for me.

I am running Latest version available: 4.2.0 Patch Level 3

I do have a few other mods in place and are working through those as possible conflicts as i type this but felt i would notify the community of my findings.

Thanks DAMINK.

I can confirm that the mod works fine on 4.2.2 PL1

Is there an similar mod for VB 5 or will this one be ported over?

Nothing for vB5 yet. There is very few mods for vB5. :(