I have the same error.
At first, it was okay, but after 12 ips, it's just displaying 127.255.255.255
How can I fix this?

Thats quite a strange issue; what do you have the cidr range set to?

Also, do you know if you are running a 32 or 64 bit operating system?

Works fine for me on 4.1.3 :)

This is a great tool, thank you for developing this.

Feature Request: Quickly ban all users associated with an IP
I am getting HAMMERED by spambots and some of them make upwards of 250 accounts on a single IP before we catch them. It would be nice to have an admincp tool and/or a supermod tool that would ban ALL of the users on that IP while blocking site access from the IP as well.

Right now we have to open each and every single user account and then ban the user, then go back and move onto the next user account, ban them ... then repeat. It takes a LONG time, and now that we're serious about this I've found maybe 1,000 total accounts that need to be deleted from just only maybe 20 IP addresses.

I am willing to donate $30 towards development of this type of tool, anyone willing to match that or kick in something? I'm looking for a solution in the very near term.

Thanks again for the work done on this project.

I'll investigate how much effort that would be over the weekend.

If its going to be done a 'delete all posts from this ip' feature would probably help as well

Should look into Spam-O-Matic or one of its lesser incarnations for spam prevention. For before it gets necessary to use this mod :)

Not working same error.

Same problem here exactly :(

Yep im getting the same issue on the spam bot ip range, if i type in 188.123.248.62 to ban a well know russian bot network it saves it to 127.255.255.255. On the plus side normal users who misbehave get banned ok. go figure......

Please ask, this program vbb spend for version 4.1.3?

I translate by Google

@SVIT.Share: I assume you are asking if it works on 4.1.3 or if it is free for version 4.1.3 The answer to both questions is YES.

I have just tested the 188.123.248.62 ip address on my installation and it worked fine. So standard debug questions:

1. What CIDR range did you set?
2. What version of vbulletin are you running?
3. What version of php and mysql are you running (of most importance is 32bit/64bit)?

Would be great to be able to allow SuperMods to use this tool.

It would be possible with a few tweaks. You would just need to change the permissions that are used from admin permissions to moderator permissions and upload the files to the modcp directory instead.

This looks quite useful, But most of my troublesome users are behind a proxy and thus would make this useless.
Is there a way that you can auto-detect a previously already IP banned user and auto-ban that IP as well.

how would you go about detecting them?

Thanks for a such a gr8 mod, :)

Installed.

thank you :)

I'm on 4.0.7 and I'm having the same problem.

Just a thought: You could intergrate Paul M's Proxy detector.

If the permissions are showing up, then it should be possible to allow others access. The only related issue I've found was it not actually installing the permissions in the first place.

I have this working on 4.1.5
For those with issues with permissions try installing the mod again, that's how I fixed my issue with them.

Same problem here. 188.123.248.62 becomes 127.255.255.255.

1. Default 32
2. 4.1.5 Patch Level 1
3. php: 5.2.14 - mysql: 5.0.67 - no idea if it's 32bit or 64 bit though. where can i see that?

Ok - hopefully a simple answer -

How do I ban a range of IP's - My specific problem is I have hundreds of "guests" trying to access my forum. As it is a closed and private forum I need to be able to ban the IP's
180.76.5.xxx - all bots from China.

I can ban them one at a time and it works greatly as single bans - but way too time comsuming to ad an IP one at a time.

Suggestions?

180.76.5.0 with a cidr of 24 - got it thx

you would be better off with cidr of 16

if you use the whois tool, you can see this:

Basically the block of ips is from 180.76.0.0 to 180.76.255.255 so to block them all you need a cidr of 16

I'm confused. Is there an answer to the 127.255.255.255 issue?

Currently I'm unable to replicate that issue, so I'm waiting for some more debugging information.

The issue is caused by something somewhere not handling integers as unsigned and capping it at the maximum signed value for an integer.

I did that, but not work for me.
My 2 co-admins cannot see Ip Ban Manager and mine yes !

hi, i know, it's a old thread, but its run this in vers. 4.1.10 ?

Thank you. Installed. :)

Not working for 4.1.10 database error.

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. :(