Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Advanced IP Ban Manager

Advanced IP ban manager

What is it/What does it do?

This is intended as a replacement for the ip bans under vbulletin options. It allows for timed ip bans, cidr ranges and attatching reasons to bans.

It also features registration only ip bans allowing members who may be effected by an ip ban to continue using the forums, but blocking registrations and ip ban exempts so that you can ban a large range of ips and let through a smaller subset of them.

Features

• Ip bans
• Timed ip bans
• Ip ban exempts
• Registration only bans
• Ban by cidr range

Installation
Backup db.
Upload files from zip.
Import product.
Refresh admincp.

Once Version 0.3 is installed; upload the attached php file into your admin cp to replace the one already there. This file fixes a couple of minor issues for some people.

Changelog

• 0.3.1
  Added a work around for issues of 0.0.0.0 ips being banned on any system where ip2long returned a signed int instead of an unsigned int.
• 0.3
  Fixed bug where ip bans wouldn't block registrations unless set to registration only.
  Added file with a list of common spambot ips that can be auto banned.
  Changed limit on cidr range from 16 to 4 As i often came across instances where i wanted to ban larger ranges
• 0.2.1b
  Added a bitfield rebuild to installer to fix issues with menu not showing.
• 0.2b
  Fixed bug in instal code.
• 0.2a
  Added admin permissions and exempt bans
• 0.1a
  Initial release.

Notes

This has been tested on 3.7.2 but should work on 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x

This mod has not been tested on vbulletin 4; a separate, improved vbulletin 4 version can be found HERE

Access is now controlled by an admincp permission however no control over ip banning is done.

This variable can be used in the config file to prevent banning any ip/range of ips that contain the ips listed in it: $config['SpecialUsers']['unbannableips'] = "127.0.0.1|127.0.0.2";
Ips should be separated by a | symbol. This will not effect any bans that are already in place.

Bans are limited to a cidr range of 4. (This should be more than enough) If you require a ban that covers more than this, it should be set in the database. If there is demand for it, I may make the cidr limit optional/changable in future versions.

Exempts/bans work by taking the tightest cidr range match. eg if you ban 127.0.0.1/16 and add an exempt for 127.0.0.1/24 the exempt will take precedence, however adding another ban against 127.0.0.1/32 would override the exempt.

When uninstalling, the mod will remove the modifications to the admin table, however it is upto you to drop the ipbans table yourself. This has been done in order to preserve the data in that table incase you still want it for something.

I've added a file which was created by a member of my admin team, it contains a large list of ip addresses from which A lot of malignant traffic seems to come from. If you are having trouble with spam bots this list may help in preventing them from registering. To use the file visit the url : <your forum url>/admincp/ipban.spambots.php It will ask you to log in to your cp then display a blank page; this is to be expected as all its doing is inserting into the database. It will add approximately 140 bans; so they've been coded NOT to show up in the ip ban list. This feature is something i plan to expand on with a full interface for viewing, creating, adding and removing ip blocklists, but for now this mechanism is what i've come up with.

Support

As all of my boards have been upgraded to vbulletin 4, I am no longer actively maintaining any of my vb3.x mods. Free support for all of my 3.x mods is being removed from the 31st of March 2010 after this date, I will only be offering paid support for 3.x mods; downloading and usage of the mods will remain free but unsupported.

Please pm me for support of 3.x mods as I will not be checking their threads very often.

[S]Support is now offered as this is a beta release. I'll be checking vborg from time to time but for critical support issues, you are best contacting me on my own forums.

I'm hoping that this version (0.3) is bug free, so this can be considered a release candidate version.[/S]

I've uploaded a fixed php file for some people who were having problems with short php tags and other parse errors. This needs to be uploaded to the admin cp. The file will be added into the zip once in the next release.

This mod [S]will be [/S] has been upgraded to support vb4 The vbulletin 4 version will be released once the beta goes public.

Extra features in vb4.0 version:

• whois ip from admin cp
• cidr calculator (shows the ip range that a cidr bans)
• test bans (enter an ip to see if its banned or not)

Planned features for future versions:

• import/export bans
• integration into 'delete posts as spam' => admins with suitable permissions will be able to select a box to ban the posters ip(s) in addition to banning their account(s)

[Carnage]

sevo: can you post the 'script language' it comes up with.

angeldevil: can you try with a different cidr; say 31 ?

[angeldevil]

TY Carnage i can ban that IP while change CIDR to 31

[mark370]

So if ive understood this correct if i use the CIDR range /24 to ban IP: 9.10.166.9/24 that will ban the [256 ips] from 9.10.166.0 through to 9.10.166.255.

Btw thats a Example IP

[Businesss]

I can't get this to work either. I ban a single ip address using this mod and the same address is used just minutes after.....Hmmmmm.

I'm using (vBulletin 3.7.2 Patch Level 2)

[amaarvell]

Originally Posted by Carnage-

I've added some code to the installer which should fix the issue you are having.

Incidentally, is anyone else having issues with the menu not showing? (it should appear under the users menu)

I have just installed on 2 forums and nothing shows in the menu of either

[ShawneyJ]

thanks will test this

[Carnage]

i wonder... the banning of a single ip address works perfectly fine on my forums. I'm thinking it may be an issue in the under lying programs - php and mysql.

Can the people having problems with banning single ips (via pm if you wish) tell me what version of php and mysql you are using and if its 64 or 32 bit.

For now, ban using a cidr of 31.

[TheInsaneManiac]

Requests:

• Add more than one IP at a time (I have a lot of spam bots
• Some sort of comment system so we can organize our IP bans (Something like have categories like Spam Bot IPs and stuff)

[caltek]

Why when I enter some IP addresses it works, then when I enter certain other ones it comes up as 0.0.0.0 ( I tried CIDR 32 and 31 )?

That is the only glitch I see.....oh would be nice to have multiple fields to enter multiple IP addresses as well as having the script loop back tot he add IP page rather than the main page of admin.

Requests

* Enter more than one IP address
* Ability to update current entries
* Fix error of 0.0.0.0 showing up when IP address entered
* Loop either to entry screen of list of banned IP addresses after submit is hit

[habibie_u2]

just waiting the full version :Peace: