How did you got it working i have uploaded the zones and exactly follow the setups but having same result
Error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

please assist any help will be greatly appreciated.

Not installed but great mod.

Would like to see this modified so that it auto-deletes (possibly as an option) new registrations from specified country IPs.

Just got a new member from China this morning so I installed this for 4.2.PL1. Waiting for next new overseas member to see how this works

Trying to limit members from China as I've been getting a lot of spam from there recently.

I set it to moderate US and set up a new user. It properly sent the new user registration to moderation which I then denied.

Works great!

It doesnt seem to be working with 4.2. I registered from the US and it still moderated. Also it always says to download the zone files.

The last option setting says:

"You need to download zone files If you see an error below, then you did not upload the zone files yet (see readme)."

Is that what you mean? I think the first part (in blue) is just a reminder. I think it's ok if there is no error message below the setting.

Had this installed since on vb 4.0 and still working on vb4.2

and I absolutely love it!!! No spammers register all all now - one or two may have slipped in from the USA but combined with moderating the first 3 posts from a new user none slip in .... and no SPAMMERS!!!

thank you!!!

USA IPs are showing up as China, thus being blocked. Since installed no new registrations, but a lot of complaints of unable to register.

vB 4.2.0 PL 2

US is on the whitelist. Files are current

Great mod, working great on 4.2 pl2 doesn't miss a beat!!

What I'd love to see included is a country blacklist - not able to register at all, at least have the option to moderate or deny other countries.

I had this working in 4.1.19 for some reason it fell over after the upgrade to 4.2.x. I don't know if the spammers got smarter or what.

I've spent some time today re-installing it with the latest zone files to see what happens. Fingers crossed because this really was the best defence against spam I have ever used.

I should add that I also have this hack installed which provides a notification like new PM's and allows SuperMods to take action (instead of just admin). The other bonus is that there is a "BAN" button rather than just a deleting the ones you don't want (which means the spammers can just reuse those email addresses again).
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2015393

Problem is that this mod only works if you turn on moderation for ALL users… What I wanted to do was make the option appear in the ModCP WITHOUT turning on the "Moderate New Members" option.

To fix this problem I found that editing the xml install file and the user_moderation.php file removing the references to $vbulletin->options['moderatenewmembers'] means this little hack doesn't check to see if the moderate new members flag is on, but still checks everything else and still only allows supermods access. (which is exactly what I want).

While I understand this isn't supported by the creator (Mosh), it's only a minor mod and is easy enough to reverse if ever needed.

So if I block for instance all users from Russia. Will those ip addresses never change?

Like you block: 117.55.192.0/20
Is there a chance that ip address will be used by an other country in the future?

I don't know enough to answer that question for you.... BUT, if you update the zones files every now and again you should be good :)

I have been having massive issues as it seems that the list on the website:
http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/
doesn't include a bunch of ranges that I know are valid in Australia.

I used to get maybe one or two false positives a week, not it's more like three or four per day... sometimes more.

In any case at the moment I have added a new zone file xx.zone which I grabbed from here (for Australian in my case):
http://ipinfodb.com/ip_country_block.php#blocklist

I have then added the new XX domain to the "IP address exclusions" list in vBulletin which *should* now add those addresses to the exclusion list.

Now I KNOW that there is going to be cross over between my new XX zone and the original au.zone list from ipdeny. Hopefully this doesn't cause any issues... although I suppose we will see soon enough.

Fingers crossed it helps things.

Any plans to release this for vbulletin 5 connect?

I've been running this on my 3.8 board for a LONG time and it has been fantastic. I just started a new site running the latest version of VB4. This installed fine and all the zone files are uploaded. US and CA are excluded but ALL new registrations are going to the moderation que. I've seen other reports of this same problem in this thread but have seen no answers as to why or how to correct it. Anybody know?

Ipdeny.com doesn't seem to have a working download for "all" zone files. I have tried multiple times yesterday and today to download the GZ file, and it seems to download properly but has a file size of 0 bytes and contains no data. Tried on both Mac and PC with no luck.

Even downloading them individually gives 0kb results in many cases. It's had issues for a couple of months now :(

noticed the files from http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks are messed up

I'm using vbulletin 4.2.2. I can't open this file all-zones.tar.gz, it says archive is damaged, what now?

Try this -unzip then ftp into zones directory .....

Thanks, rotor but your zone files are from almost 2 years ago.

The archives on the site have been messed up for a while now.

These zone files are more recent than the ones rotor posted (May 2013) but they are still out of date by now - see attached.

Thanks guys a lot!

Does anyone know of an alternative source of this information?

At the moment I get thousands of spam registrations per week with a very ow false positive rate using the old (now out of date) zone files, but I figure a time will come soon enough when it no longer works for me.

Plan B: Is there an alternative option to cut down on dodgy registrations that people can recommend?

I liked this MOD also but without the files it is not very helpful.

For now I added the ip's from the countries I want to block in my htaccess file.
There are some sites where you can generate the IP list per country:

http://incredibill.me/htaccess-block-country-ips

http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker

Thanks for those, I has a few similar sources, but those are another two :)

There is no reason why you can't use those to generate your own zone files. As it is you only really need to keep the zone files up to date for countries you DONT want to filter out... Even then it's only for registration. So worst case some people need to be manually allowed through later.

Blocking at the .htaccess level means that no one from those locations can get any access, I don't see that as a viable solution.

Any chance this will be updated for vB 5.1?

Thanks working on vb 4.23 zones list still available