Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Duplicate IP Report by BOP5 (Checks for users sharing the same IP Addresses) VB3/VB4

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Version 2.1.2 - Fixed MySQLi bug - Introduced GOLD/Premium Version
Version 2.1 - Added BBCode to Banned Users and Post Count Options, better debug info
Version 2.0 - Added report for Registration (User) IP Address Checking

Check out the GOLD Version for these additional features:

• Run reports directly from the Admin CP anytime you want
• Post daily report as a "New Post" into an existing thread rather than a "New Thread" each night
• Access to another Gold Mod- Recent Registration Check- will block spammers and scammers trying to register multiple accounts from the same IP address

This mod will run a nightly scan of your "post" and/or "user" table. It will report if it finds any users sharing the same IP address. You choose in the options how many days back you want to look. (Max of 5000 days, but please use more reasonable limits.)

If any "duplicate use" is found the IP addresses, usernames and optionally the posts themselves will be reported.

See a real report: Report Demo at Qapla.com

The report takes the form of a new thread posted to the forum of the Admin's choosing (A private forum for mods or admins is strongly recommended.)

There are options for whitelisting (ignoring) specific IP Addresses and/or userids so if you or your mods post as other users you can prevent that from being reported. If you use the Zoints Anonymous Posting mod you will want to put that userid on the whitelist else the report will out whoever posted "Anonymously."

NOTE: There are PERFECTLY valid reasons 2 or more users may share the same IP address. This report in and of itself is not proof of malicious activity. Users that connect by mobile devices, work in same offices, or go to the same schools for example would likely share the same IP address on some posts. So would too any users connecting from the same home or public Wi-Fi network.

As of version 2.0 there is a report for both the "post" and "user" table. The "user" table will find when 2 or more users register with the same IP address.

Tested and working on VB 3.8.7 and VB 4.1.12/4.2.0 and should work on all 3.7 / 3.8 / 4.x versions.

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[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by Faskis

I've found that the scheduled task for this only runs if done manually, but does not run at the scheduled time (it does list a future date/time). I can't find anything about it in the error logs. Any help would be appreciated.

I have this set to run on the first day of each month, and it has always done so without fail.

Any additional information regarding how you have the product scheduled to run will be helpful to the mod author when providing support.

[CAG CheechDogg]

It also runs as it should for me ...

[the one]

Works great for me

[Faskis]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I have this set to run on the first day of each month, and it has always done so without fail.

Any additional information regarding how you have the product scheduled to run will be helpful to the mod author when providing support.

I have it set to run at midnight each day at the moment. Next runtime is listed as 1/3/2016 @ 12:00AM. This is how the settings look at the moment: http://puu.sh/mh58u/49266da7d2.png


The scheduled task log only shows the 3 instances that I'd ran the task manually: http://puu.sh/mh5dD/ee096d632c.png



Any idea on how the scheduled tasks actually run? Does it cue the server to run a command-line instance of PHP to execute the task, via cron or whatever have you? I was thinking if it attempts to do something like a cURL request that maybe Cloudflare could be interfering with the connection (I had that issue recently with a script that I was working on).

[BirdOPrey5]

It adds a scheduled task to vBulletin's list of scheduled tasks that can be seen in the Admin CP under Scheduled Task Manager.

Like all scheduled tasks they are only triggered if there is regular traffic to the forum because they are initiated on a page load where the cronimage is triggered which is in the footer template.

If no one visits the site at night the task never gets triggered.

There is a window of course, if someone comes soon after it should trigger, but at some point it just won't trigger.

Try setting it to run during a busier time of the day on your forum perhaps.

[Faskis]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It adds a scheduled task to vBulletin's list of scheduled tasks that can be seen in the Admin CP under Scheduled Task Manager.

Like all scheduled tasks they are only triggered if there is regular traffic to the forum because they are initiated on a page load where the cronimage is triggered which is in the footer template.

If no one visits the site at night the task never gets triggered.

There is a window of course, if someone comes soon after it should trigger, but at some point it just won't trigger.

Try setting it to run during a busier time of the day on your forum perhaps.

On average, there are ~200 users active at anytime of the day, so I don't think that's the issue, but I'll go ahead and adjust it to run every 6 hours to see if any of those will work.


Edit: Forgot that the scheduled tasks don't work exactly like cron jobs do, so you can't specify multiple hours. I've adjusted it to a busier hour, however.

[Hostboard]

When IPV6 is detected and reported, if the code is like "colon" "D" a smile is displayed. Will need to disable smiles in the forums settings,