Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Moderate New Registrations Based On IP Geographical Origin

Original 3.7 mod here.

This mod will put any new registration into moderation so you can either approve or deny based on the physical location of the IP address. If the IP is located in a country that you white list, the registration will go through as normal.

This may be different for everyone else, but on my forums, I have yet to have a Russian IP sign up for anything other than posting SPAM. This plugin has moderated them all!

I hope to have time to eventually expand this to do other things.

You MUST download the zone files from this site:

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ (download the "all files" file)

The free license does not allow me to include them with the product, plus it is better to download the latest files anyway.

No real screenshots to show here, sorry.

Changelog:

12/20/2008

• Coded the routine in, instead of using external whois program.
• Now compatible with Windows
• (39 download of 1.0) (3.7.x)

2/11/2009

• 77 downloads at this point (3.7.x)
• Rewrote application to use zone files rather than relying on Arin

To upgrade, READ THE README, and re-install product (select overwrite).

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

[dpnow]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

Worked for a few weeks, but now having problems.

I've got Austria in my whitelist (AT), yet registrations from that country are moderated.

China, Vietnam, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are getting through, despite not being on the whitelist.

All zone files are current, installed in the proper location, and world-readable. Valid country codes are all properly separated with commas.

Nice concept, but it's not working. For many of us, a blacklist of countries would work better than a whitelist, especially considering that there's certain countries with a reputation as being forum spam friendly (China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Philippines, Belarus, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria)

It seems the ipdeny.com IP blocks are incomplete. I had a spammer from Vietnam register last night from 117.7.119.3 and this IP address is not in the ipdeny list for Vietnam.

Ian

[ETDC]

Agreed - holes in the armour are starting to show...

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by dpnow

It seems the ipdeny.com IP blocks are incomplete. I had a spammer from Vietnam register last night from 117.7.119.3 and this IP address is not in the ipdeny list for Vietnam.

Ian

Originally Posted by ETDC

Agreed - holes in the armour are starting to show...

IP lists are changing all the time. You need to download updated lists from http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ periodically or when you see IPs slipping by. Best practice is to download all-zones.tar.gz, unpack it, and upload to the /plugins/zones folder on your server.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

For many of us, a blacklist of countries would work better than a whitelist

Easily done.

Edit file /plugins/whois.php

Find at line 11:

if (!in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],$excluded_ips)) { $ignore = true; }

Change to:

if (in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],$excluded_ips)) { $ignore = true; }

Then just enter the names of the countries you want to block or blacklist (instead of the countries you want to whitelist) in the options for the add-on.

[ETDC]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

You need to download updated lists...

I did! Plugin still get's it wrong.

[djbaxter]

How long ago did you do that?

[ETDC]

I updated the files and literally a day later had a string of spammers from Philipines / India (I only allow UK to register then post).

[ETDC]

Just updated the country files today and within an hour I had a registration from Egypt get through. This mod isn't working.

[imported_silkroad]

Just use Apache Mod_GeoIP, write a few lines of code, and be done with it.

This plugin is junk.

[ETDC]

If I knew how to!