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Topic: IP Blocking

Posted By: wonderbison
Subject: IP Blocking
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 9:58pm

I have an IP range blocked 211.* as it is China, however I have been notified by another administrator that an IP address http://www.rolling-maul.com/admin_ip_blocking.asp?IP=211.88.31.225 - 211.88.31.225 registered.

Any ideas why this could have happened please?

(Good old "myspace123" user)

Thanks

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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 5:11pm

We had the same thing - I blocked a spammer IP range xxx.yyy.*.* and a week later, another spammer registered/joined AND successfully posted spam as well.
Registering is one thing, but for them to post using an address that was only a few numbers away from the original when I had a whole range "blocked" rather surprised me........

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 9:07am

wonderbison if you have 211.* in your IP Blocking list it should block the IP 211.88.31.225. I have tested with the latest version with those settings and it does work. There is a known issue with some older version though where IP blocking did not work correctly.

billd3 xxx.yyy.*.* would not work as that it the wrong format as you can only use one wild card, not two as you have, you would use xxx.yyy.*

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Posted By: wonderbison
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 9:29am

WWB

Thanks for getting back

Sadly it didnt block it for me and I am on the latest version. Is there anything I can set up to log for this going forward?

Could it be that I also have a specific IP block for 211.174.63.251 as well as 211.*?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 10:39am

It should work as it would run through the complete list of IP addresses.

Make sure that you have not left any spaces infront or behind 211.* in the IP Block list.