ipInfo -- Extra user IP information
 

ipInfo is a replacement for the standard 'view users ip' option in
vBulletin. Normally when you click on the view ip button in a user's post
you'll only see his or hers ip address and host name.

With ipInfo you'll get more information. Besides the ip address and host
name you will also see what other users have posted with the same ip
address. That feature can be really good for spotting clones.

Another thing ipInfo will show you is what other ips this user has posted
with and how many times. Could be useful when you want to ban all of the
ips of a user and not just the one of that post.

Instructions, screenshot & php file attached!

Note: Parts of the IPs on the screenshot are hidden, this is obviously not the case when you install it on your site. They're hidden for security :D

It will probably look familiar to those that had or have a phpBB board. This was one of the features I missed so much in vBulletin, not anymore :D

Update: I forgot to add a phrase in the instructions. Instruction text file is updated. If you already have the hack installed add this phrase to the phrase group GLOBAL:
Varname: host_name
Text: Host Name

Thanks to Boofo for letting me know!

Very nice! Will install this later :D

nice one, ill definitly use this :)

Any way to add proxy detecetion to this also? I have the proxy IP hack installed and I would have to uninstall it for this. ;)

From looking at it briefly, it looks as though the stuff that the proxy detector does isn't fundamentally changed, so should be easily integrated with this.

:)

Cool hack thnx.. will install later :)

very useful!! thank you

Very nice, thanks!!

i like this installed :)

Boofo is testing my addon for the proxy hack and the ipinfo hack, I hope it's going to work. If it's working I'll post it here :)

Thanks for all the kind comments!

Installed - Nice one.

Great mod. I installed without a problem.

Nice.
Any way to get this to list all instances of multiple accounts per per user or IP on like a seperate "Multiple Account's" page, maybe in the ACP? It would be a great tool to just have a listing of linked accounts.

That is an excellent hack! Installed!

That could get really difficult, it'll probably need lots of complicated SQL queries. I figure it would be relaly resource intensive too. I'll think about it but I'm not going to promise anything ;)

Dumb question: The last step says New Templates...

I'm new to VB what does this mean?

## NEW TEMPLATES ################################################## #######

Means just that.

Where it says: Title: ipinfo_otherip

Make a new template called ipinfo_otherip

And copy the text below it in this new template and follow on with the other 3.

Laters

Any news on using this with the proxy hack?

would love to hear if it works.

My Super Moderators and Moderators are unable to see this. I'll check their settings, but if they appear to be fine, how would I make it so they can see everything? Right now, they can just see the IP.

Nice Hack......

@sully02 - ???? For what reason is a mod needing to see the IP from User ?

very usefull hack thanks

Excellent hack for Admins! You get my vote for security hack of the year.

What's the proxy hack?

Very nice Hack. Thanks a lot!

CLICKED @ INSTALL :)

well done Jordeh, thanks
[high]* Onkel_Tom clicks install ;)
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For instance the "proxy IP hack" Users can do a workaround.

In Template postbit_ip instead of changing the line
<a href="postings.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getip&amp;p=$post[postid]">

add a separate line at the end of this Template.

find in Template postbit_ip:
[code]<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/ip.gif" alt="$vbphrase[ip]" title="IP-Address: $post[ip] ......... etc. etc. </if>" border="0" /></a>[code]

add after:
pay attention that the code "</if>" is still at the end of this template !

After that copy the attached image ip2.gif to your /forum/images/buttons directory.

Now you have both Hacks working on your forum.

My Super Mods do all sorts of detective work, as do my senior mods and some forum leaders... We only have a few admins and to make this a real strong tool people other than admins would be a huge plus if you cannot already select.

Very nice Hack.
I'll use it in conjunction with the Geobytes IP address locator, http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

of course, AOL proxied users generate false positives, those AOL proxies always screw up webmaster stats....

When perusing, "Who's online" users that are using ipinfo.php are flagged as being in an unknown location, and the syntax passed to ipinfo.php is shown.

Can normal users access this file if they observe the full URL on the whos online page?

Is it possible to change the whos online variable to, "running security checks" or something similar.

And would it be advisable to place the ipinfo.php in the admincp folder, or at least somewhere that's protected by username/password such as an .htaccess/.htpasswd protected directory on an apache server?

Good points Limey.

Nice Hack. A combination of the proxy IP hack and of this one would be great because right now, i have 2 buttons in each post. Just one button and one template showing all information would be great. Give it a try !!!

Cheers,

I assume this is "the proxy hack" you are referring to?

Thanks for this hack, *clicks install*

Thanks Theater, but i have seen this already. My request would be not to have 2 icons to click, but only 1 icon where you have the information of both hacks combined. Got me ?

Cheers,

/me clicks install!

Cool, I clicked install ;) thanks lots bro

[high]* Yelper clicks install. :D
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Extremely handy not going all the way to AdminCP to check all this, and you can easily see with IP address is primary (most posts). Nice work!

thanks. Great Hack.

Installed this hack.. very useful as we have had loads of clones lately.. :)

Installed.......great work!

*install* on vB3.0.3. I used Onkel Tom's workaround in template postbit_ip because postbit_ip has Paul Marsden's Proxy IP Hack Modification v1.1 code in it. His hack is at
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=69295

I've also got Proxy Detector v3.1

Paul Marsden's modification provides a red coloured gif in place if ip.gif when the post was posted by a user with a proxy server. Has other benefits as well.

Onkel Tom's workaround provides an additional gif to call-up the template information provided in this hack. With all three hacks installed I'm much better informed about my members and which ones may be using other names. Even if they use a proxy server I can see them in Who's Online. I had no problems with the installs but there were quite a few file and template changes and some new templates were created.

thankyou this hack rocks

(installed on vb 3.0.3)