Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Advanced Ipban Manager

What does this 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.

What can I use it for?
This is a much better tool for managing ip bans on your forums. As it has its own permissions, you can grant admins access to it without needing them to have full access to the vbulletin settings. For more details see the features list.

Features

• A new interface, separate to the options for adding and removing ip bans.
• Set expiry dates and reasons for ip bans
• See who set which ip bans
• Set ip bans by cidr range.
• Set registration only ip bans (great for stopping spam bots without affecting existing forum users)
• Set exempt ip bans (ban a large range of ips and only allow select ips through the ban)
• Define unbannable ips in config.php
• A range of tools for assisting usage including:
  • Cidr to range calculator (see what range a certain ban will affect)
  • Range to cidr calculator (creates a set of bans to cover any arbitrary range [experimental]
  • Test an ip (enter an ip to see if its banned or not and which if any bans affect it)
  • Whois an ip (get information on who owns (eg which isp) an ip and the cidr range of ips that they own (simplifying blocking users on dynamic ips)) [Dependant on host and server OS]
  • Check if a user is banned (enter a username/userid to see if they are banned or not)

Planned features

• Ban a user (some sort of integration and automation to ip ban users from their admincp profile)
• Integration with delete as spam feature to allow automatically ip banning spammers
• Inport/Export ip bans to share with others and amongst other sites you own
• Os independent whois and results parsing (eg give novice admins a hand in picking out the important bits)
• Automatic conversion from old bans into new ones.
• Phrases for admincp areas (that are currently lacking them)
• Integrated Admin help

Installation
1. Backup db.
2. Upload files from zip.
3. Import product file.
4. Setup admin permissions for your staff.

Upgrading from 3.6+ version of this mod
1. Backup db
2. Use the uninstall option for the 3.6 version of this product. (this will leave your ip bans in tact)
3. Upload the new files from the zip, overwriting the old ones
4. Import the new product file.
5. Check admin permissions for your staff members.

Upgrading from previous versions of this mod
1. Upload files in upload directory
2. Import product (allowing override)

Uninstallation
1. Backup db.
2. Uninstall the product file.
3. Manually delete the ipbans table from your database (unless you want to keep it)
4. Delete the files that were included with this release.

Changelog

• 4.0-0.4 rc1
  • Changed min cidr range from 16 to 8.
  • Added md5 sums file, ipban manger will no longer come up as suspect files in diagnostics (unless someone has tampered with the files)
  • Added feature to check if a user is banned
• 4.0-0.4 b2 (unreleased)
  • Fixed a couple of minor bugs
    • Redirecting to the wrong place after adding an ip ban
    • Short php tag at top of admincp file
• 4.0-0.4 b1
  • Added tool to calculate cidrs from an arbitary range
  • Fixed product help and version check urls
• 4.0-0.4 a2
  • Fixed bug with admincp menu not showing
• 4.0-0.4 a1
  • initial release

Notes

• See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=186342 this thread for 3.6+ version and some guides on usage.

[Ashley B]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

Is this mod still working? I tried to add an IP recently and it just put 127.255.255.255 in the IP field no matter what I did, and testing the IP i tried to ban showed it was still accepted so it's not just a display error.

I have the same error.
At first, it was okay, but after 12 ips, it's just displaying 127.255.255.255
How can I fix this?

[Carnage]

Thats quite a strange issue; what do you have the cidr range set to?

Also, do you know if you are running a 32 or 64 bit operating system?

[HolyKiller]

Works fine for me on 4.1.3

[StonePilot]

This is a great tool, thank you for developing this.

Feature Request: Quickly ban all users associated with an IP
I am getting HAMMERED by spambots and some of them make upwards of 250 accounts on a single IP before we catch them. It would be nice to have an admincp tool and/or a supermod tool that would ban ALL of the users on that IP while blocking site access from the IP as well.

Right now we have to open each and every single user account and then ban the user, then go back and move onto the next user account, ban them ... then repeat. It takes a LONG time, and now that we're serious about this I've found maybe 1,000 total accounts that need to be deleted from just only maybe 20 IP addresses.

I am willing to donate $30 towards development of this type of tool, anyone willing to match that or kick in something? I'm looking for a solution in the very near term.

Thanks again for the work done on this project.

[Carnage]

I'll investigate how much effort that would be over the weekend.

If its going to be done a 'delete all posts from this ip' feature would probably help as well

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by StonePilot

This is a great tool, thank you for developing this.

Feature Request: Quickly ban all users associated with an IP
I am getting HAMMERED by spambots and some of them make upwards of 250 accounts on a single IP before we catch them. It would be nice to have an admincp tool and/or a supermod tool that would ban ALL of the users on that IP while blocking site access from the IP as well.

Right now we have to open each and every single user account and then ban the user, then go back and move onto the next user account, ban them ... then repeat. It takes a LONG time, and now that we're serious about this I've found maybe 1,000 total accounts that need to be deleted from just only maybe 20 IP addresses.

I am willing to donate $30 towards development of this type of tool, anyone willing to match that or kick in something? I'm looking for a solution in the very near term.

Thanks again for the work done on this project.

Should look into Spam-O-Matic or one of its lesser incarnations for spam prevention. For before it gets necessary to use this mod

[steviewonder44]

Not working same error.

[Dragaon]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

Is this mod still working? I tried to add an IP recently and it just put 127.255.255.255 in the IP field no matter what I did, and testing the IP i tried to ban showed it was still accepted so it's not just a display error.

Same problem here exactly

[blowy]

Yep im getting the same issue on the spam bot ip range, if i type in 188.123.248.62 to ban a well know russian bot network it saves it to 127.255.255.255. On the plus side normal users who misbehave get banned ok. go figure......

[SVIT.Share]

Please ask, this program vbb spend for version 4.1.3?

I translate by Google