Block Registrations from Same IP
 

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|| Block Registrations from Same IP
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.2
|| Released : Dec 29, 2005
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|| Time required to install: 30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

When a person attempts to perform a registration, this hack checks user, post, adminlog and moderatorlog tables for entries with the person's IP address. If such entry is found, an error message is displayed.

STATISTICS

Products to Install: 1


VERSION HISTORY

1.0.0
Initial Version

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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Woo Hoo first reply.
Deosnt get any easier then this, Will give it a try.
Clicks Install

good idea but would suck for those on dial up and aol's junky service that share the ip's with people. might loose some registered users.

Agree with GoTTi, unless you have an old account or a business account, most ISP's no longer issue static IP's. Nice idea though.

Bob

Hmmm Never thaught about that.
Might have to rethink this one a bit.

Many cable providers do issue static IPs. This was done by a request though, so it's not my idea. ;)

Great idea, but it will prevent people using public/free internet from signing up. I'm not sure, but wouldn't this also block office people or large companies? Just a thought.

Yes, it would. I, personally, don't see any use to this hack... However, someone asked me to do it, so I did :) If anyone likes it - feel free to install, if not - feel free to not install. You are not obligated :)

Isn't that strange - I did exactly the same thing by request the other day - but they want an exceptions list adding (which I must get round to doing ;)).

Woow Thanks alot .. it was my reguest :)

Wont this just alienate a large bulk of AOL users from accessing your forums?

If it is checking post IPs also then no doubt.

It would help if you could select which areas to check. It may be better off to only check the registration IP as you would have a much less chance of a false positive.

It's about time AOL started using proxy servers that pass on the client IP.

Installed!

You missed the button, bro.

Bonus!

(j/k) :devious:

hmm what about this:

do not display a error message but put the user join requiest in the moderation queue even if that is not enabled in the Control pannel

For example I want to stop clones on my forum but I want to manually check clone suspicions... I cannot check all the join requests because there are so many... but if there were a way to check only the suspicious ones ;)

Thats a good idea,

Or have an IP whitelist so you can add the AOL proxies in to the white list.

awesome hack!

installed!!

is there any chance this could be modded so that it checks for the same IP addres within x hours (or mins)?

That could help controll spammers/trolls

The message the users get is:

How can we customise it ?

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You should edit the appropriate phrase.

is this work on 353 and 354

Does this work with 3.5.4? thank you

I believe it does.

Is it possible to get an updated version of this for 3.6?

Just want to say I'm using this for 3.8 and it works great.

Great mod, thanks.