Hi Nitron.

There is an error message that is displayed to the user in the standard vb error display format. You can edit exactly what it says by editing the phrase DM_found_in_rbl.

The PM option allows you, as an admin, to receive a PM with the IP when its blocked.

I will look at adding multiple RBLs in the next version.

oh sweet.. just got confused by what the options were for.. since there was no clear explanation.. :)

can the PM options have drop down menu and let you chose PM or EMAIL?
You can solve that by making one line option with multiple boxes..
example

"Notify Following UserID's [enter userid# here] by [drop down box with options EMAIL/PM] about failed registrations"
and user id "0" would disable that whole option.

Isn't the sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org blacklist a list of IP's that are used by email spammers? I'd expect that to be successful for blocking email spam, but that is not the same as blocking anonymous http proxy sites like Proxify.

countrycheck.com used to try to keep track of anonymous http proxy servers, but they seem to have gone out of business. Their site has contained just an error message for a few weeks now.

spamhaus.org rolls up a number of other RBLs. You can also specify whatever RBL you want to use.

Which Spamhaus (or other source) RBL contains anonymous http proxy servers?

When you say open proxy, does that mean aol is not blocked?

From spamhaus.org:

http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/index.lasso

Obviously many of those open proxy IPs reflect mailservers but I have had some success with IPs found googling "anonymous HTTP proxy" getting blocked.

I'm still looking for a proper list of anonymous web proxies.


That is correct - AOL is not blocked because it is proxying for its customers.

I have been doing some testing with different RBL's and google'd lists of open proxy servers... so far list.dsbl.org seems to return the most "hits" for known proxy IPs.

I will be testing it out to see if I get any false positives and may update the product to use it as a default... more info: http://dsbl.org/main

Wow, this has actually been really effective sinced I installed it a couple of days ago.:up:

My only recommendation would be maybe an option that let you designate a post notification in the forum choice of the Admin (such as a Private Forum for mods and/or admins), instead of the PM notifiications. The AE multiple account detector does that.

Other than that, good job! :up:

I've combined this with other proxy hacks (such as Paul M's Proxy to Real IP hack) with some good success. :)

Thanks... I'll look at adding that for the next version.