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 works with 4.0.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

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

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

[Jafo232]

Great, let me know how it works out for you in a while. I am considering expanding this to something more. Would be real interested in your feedback..

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Great, let me know how it works out for you in a while. I am considering expanding this to something more. Would be real interested in your feedback..

Unfortunately it does not seem to be working. For non-ARIN related IP's it defaults to the location of the Regional Internet registry such as RIPE or APNIC. So China IP's appear to come from Australia. I had a registration from China today from IP 58.244.50.212 which localizes to Changchun, Jilin, China but the mod (and test.php) saw it as Australia (APNIC headquarters) and let it through.

Not sure why that would be. Maybe a limitation of the whois function.

[vbplusme]

APNIC is Asia Pacific, not just Australia, FYI

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Jim O

Unfortunately it does not seem to be working. For non-ARIN related IP's it defaults to the location of the Regional Internet registry such as RIPE or APNIC. So China IP's appear to come from Australia. I had a registration from China today from IP 58.244.50.212 which localizes to Changchun, Jilin, China but the mod (and test.php) saw it as Australia (APNIC headquarters) and let it through.

Not sure why that would be. Maybe a limitation of the whois function.

Originally Posted by vbplusme

APNIC is Asia Pacific, not just Australia, FYI

Your point????

FYI, please read my post slowly, it's quoted here in its entirety for your convenience, and then please show me where I said any such thing.

When I went to school I was taught that China was in fact in Asia, not in Australia, so give me just a bit of credit for knowing that APNIC does not refer to Australia alone.

What I said was: "For non-ARIN related IP's it defaults to the location of the Regional Internet registry."

Now just where is APNIC located? I'm not talking about the region it serves but where it is actually located (I even used the word "headquarters" in my post). Uhmm... hmmm... let's see. A quick look at http://www.apnic.net/info/contact/index.html will show they are pysically located in Milton, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA So Chinese IP's, and in fact all APNIC related IP's appear to be from Australia.

For the same reason, all RIPE related IP's appear to come from the Netherlands. Yes, I know there are many countries served by RIPE beside the Netherlands, but it is located in Amsterdam. So if I wanted to exclude Belarus the adaptation of this modification that I wrote would fail because Belarussian IP's appear, to this modification, to be from the Netherlands, just as Chinese IP's appear to be from Australia. I tested this with multiple IP's from multiple countries for both RIPE and APNIC and the results were 100% consistent.

Now have I made myself clear enough so you won't feel the need to make another drive by off topic comment?

[dknelson]

Has anybody tried this on 3.8?

Sorry, just saw in the first post that this should work on 3.8. I've installed so should know soon. If it works as described, this is a FANTASTIC hack. Thanks much.

[dknelson]

OK....I had previously not moderated new members. I installed this yesterday and this morning found my first member in the moderation que. I have the US and Canada whitelisted. I ran this IP Address through Whois and it shows to be in Texas. Why was this registrant placed into moderation? 76.210.32.55

[kfiasche81]

i have write in the valid country : US,CA,IT
IT= italian
but a new user whit this ip 213.140.16.183 was made on moderation park.

[dknelson]

I love what this mod is SUPPOSED to do but it's just not working for me. It is not correctly identifying the location of the IP addresses. It works for some but I have it set to not moderate users from the USA and Canada but it still puts some of them into moderation. Maybe the one that used the external whois would work better...I'm not sure but think I'll try it.

[dknelson]

I've uninstalled it. Love the concept but it simply doesn't work. It keeps putting people into moderation who are within the countries that I have white listed. Will continue looking for a solution.

[kfiasche81]

Originally Posted by dknelson

I love what this mod is SUPPOSED to do but it's just not working for me. It is not correctly identifying the location of the IP addresses. It works for some but I have it set to not moderate users from the USA and Canada but it still puts some of them into moderation. Maybe the one that used the external whois would work better...I'm not sure but think I'll try it.

Originally Posted by dknelson

I've uninstalled it. Love the concept but it simply doesn't work. It keeps putting people into moderation who are within the countries that I have white listed. Will continue looking for a solution.

me too