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

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. This also works on 3.8.x.

You MUST download the zone files from this site:

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/

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)

2/11/2009

• 77 downloads at this point
• Rewrote application to use zone files rather than relying on Arin

12/27/2009

• Verified it works for 4.0

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

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

Developed by a Lampwright!

[rotor]

Try this -unzip then ftp into zones directory .....

[djbaxter]

Thanks, rotor but your zone files are from almost 2 years ago.

The archives on the site have been messed up for a while now.

These zone files are more recent than the ones rotor posted (May 2013) but they are still out of date by now - see attached.

[datoneer]

Thanks guys a lot!

[The_Hawk]

Does anyone know of an alternative source of this information?

At the moment I get thousands of spam registrations per week with a very ow false positive rate using the old (now out of date) zone files, but I figure a time will come soon enough when it no longer works for me.

Plan B: Is there an alternative option to cut down on dodgy registrations that people can recommend?

[qpurser]

Originally Posted by The_Hawk

Plan B: Is there an alternative option to cut down on dodgy registrations that people can recommend?

I liked this MOD also but without the files it is not very helpful.

For now I added the ip's from the countries I want to block in my htaccess file.
There are some sites where you can generate the IP list per country:

http://incredibill.me/htaccess-block-country-ips

http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker

[The_Hawk]

Thanks for those, I has a few similar sources, but those are another two

There is no reason why you can't use those to generate your own zone files. As it is you only really need to keep the zone files up to date for countries you DONT want to filter out... Even then it's only for registration. So worst case some people need to be manually allowed through later.

Blocking at the .htaccess level means that no one from those locations can get any access, I don't see that as a viable solution.

[marinelife]

Any chance this will be updated for vB 5.1?

[leemart44]

Thanks working on vb 4.23 zones list still available