Miscellaneous Hacks - Ban IP's In vBulletin Options Easily

What this mod does
With this simple mod you can enter a list of IP's that you want to ban (redirect) one per line, when trying to access your site the user of the IP will be redirected to an obscure google page with a 301 permanent redirect.

What this mod won't do
With this mod you cannot ban partial ranged IP's laid out like this 2.23.123 - 2.23.130

How to install
Simply go to Admincp>Manage Products and import product-baniparray.xml

Please mark as installed if you use this!

Version History
v1.0.1
Made it possible to use partial IP addresses
v1.0.2
Added custom redirect message box
Added custom redirect url box
Added IP Range boxes for banning IP's that fall within range
Ranged IP's parsed during checks
vbeta added for test purposes 9/08/2011
Beta has email notification ability, this beta is for those of you that wish to test it and feed back!


Checked range block working only against my IP range, please report any bugs!

[Simon Lloyd]

no need for .* or .

If you enter 88.123.11 then it will ban:
88.123.11.1
88.123.11.2
88.123.11..3 ......etc

If you enter 88 then it will ban every ip that has 88 in it so in this case you'd need to add an extra qualifier so 88.123 will ban every ip that has that in it, addind a dot5 after it like 88.123. will ensure that only ips's with another paremeter after the las t dot will be banned.

Hope that clears it up for you.

[ram94401]

It does. Thanks again.

[sverdios]

any chance, for example, if one user try to logging with a banned ip automatic ban the user?

[Simon Lloyd]

if a user attempts to login with a banned ip either with my system of vbulletins then they wont be able to load the site.

[sverdios]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

if a user attempts to login with a banned ip either with my system of vbulletins then they wont be able to load the site.

yes i know, but the user can change you ip and access then, for example I acces to vbulletin from my dedicated server, this ip are banned, but i can access normally from my pc. any chance to move this user to banned group? or some log register what user try to logging from banned ip?

[Simon Lloyd]

You are talking about 2 different things!

Originally Posted by sverdios

any chance to move this user to banned group?

and

Originally Posted by sverdios

or some log register what user try to logging from banned ip?

the second part is an easy thing to do, the first is a little harder. If I have time at some point i'll add those things.

[Dan49]

Hi Simon,

I installed this mod. Added a few IPs to the list. Then one of my legit users got blocked. I spent a lot of time with him trying to pin point the problem, as his IP is not on the list. I narrowed it down by removing a few IPs from the list at a time, until I found which one affected him.

I had 222. on the list which blocked 203.59.222.162.

What I concluded is that 222. does not only block the beginning numbers, it blocks any occurrence of those numbers in the IP.

Is this what you wanted this mod to do? Let me know if this the case, then I must uninstall it as it's unpredictable which IPs it will ban.

[Dan49]

Never mind, I just saw you answered this a few posts above. Looks like I understood correctly. It's too dangerous to put only 3 numbers on the list. But I think I can still make it work, adding at least one more ###. behind it.

[Dan49]

Simon,

I want to make sure I'm using block range of IPs feature correctly. If I set
Start IP: 202.46.48.36
End IP: 202.46.63.165

will it block these IPs?
202.46.48.77
202.46.57.138
202.46.62.142

[Simon Lloyd]

To be honest its been a long while since I used or did any development on this mod, my first instinct is to say no because those ip's are fully qualified ip's you'd need to enter them like
202.46.48
202.46.63

I cant remember what instructions I gave in the mod. My wifes due to have a big op so I wont have time to test or look at this for at least a week - sorry!