My site is getting attacked by unwanted visitors...

New Member Joined: Sep 03, 2003 Posts: 5

Hello;

A rival site in my country has basically declared war on me and people from their site come to mine to ruin it. I have deleted a lot of accounts and they just keep coming, which gives me the idea to ip ban their site so they leave me alone.

Do you know of an application that is for nuke that can help me with this?

X

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

The surest and simplest way to ban by IP is to add them to your .htaccess file.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:50 pm

Raven wrote:

The surest and simplest way to ban by IP is to add them to your .htaccess file.

I don't know how to do that... Sad

Can you explain a bit?

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:00 pm

Determine if you already have a .htaccess file in your nuke root directory. The file is hidden by default from most ftp clients. Check your documentation for your client as to how to display the file. You should have a way to pass a start-up string to your client. The string is normally -la .

If you don't have one, create one with a good editor, like Textpad. Then add the Apache directives to block the IP's like this:

Deny from 42.234.84.112
Deny from 65.74.123

The second one will block all IP's from 65.74.123.000-65.74.123.999 . Unless the IP's are static, using the first one will not accomplish much. I highly recommend the second one and sometimes even use this

Deny from 65.74

When you are done just ftp the file to your root web directory.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:22 pm

Raven wrote:

Determine if you already have a .htaccess file in your nuke root directory. The file is hidden by default from most ftp clients. Check your documentation for your client as to how to display the file. You should have a way to pass a start-up string to your client. The string is normally -la .

If you don't have one, create one with a good editor, like Textpad. Then add the Apache directives to block the IP's like this:

Deny from 42.234.84.112
Deny from 65.74.123

The second one will block all IP's from 65.74.123.000-65.74.123.999 . Unless the IP's are static, using the first one will not accomplish much. I highly recommend the second one and sometimes even use this

Deny from 65.74

When you are done just ftp the file to your root web directory.

ok and how do I find out the ip the user is using? also do you know how to use the ban control in the forum configuration?

Worker Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 227

I use a module called protector that gives me granular control over the system. It's very easy to install. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] It keeps track historically of all IP's and what user ID they are assigned to.

Or...all posts to the discussion board should show the IP address to the board administrator. You can ban bassed on that.

Or....there might be a mod out there that customizes the registration so that an IP address is logged. EDIT: Found this: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I would start with #1 and/or #2 first.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:10 pm

Keep in mmid though that those programs add overhead and also require that the person already is in your site. Using the .htaccess file keeps them out at the server level as well as the application level.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:25 pm

Good point. the banning IP's are stored in MYSQL. I think the other parts of the program are now available in the ms-ananlsysi program I just installed. maybe it's time to uninstall that. Smile

Worker Joined: Feb 16, 2004 Posts: 164

Do you have a cpanel? If so you can just ban them via that.

How does that work anyway ......does it generate new lines in the .htaccess file?

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:21 am

Yes, it just adds lines to the cPanel so you are accomplishing the same thing.

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:00 am

paranor wrote:

I use a module called protector that gives me granular control over the system. It's very easy to install. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] It keeps track historically of all IP's and what user ID they are assigned to.

Or...all posts to the discussion board should show the IP address to the board administrator. You can ban bassed on that.

Or....there might be a mod out there that customizes the registration so that an IP address is logged. EDIT: Found this: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I would start with #1 and/or #2 first.

Could you make me an easy step by step on how to install protector. Because every time I install it I get a blank screen when I try to install using the install_block.php.

If it is not too much trouble post it here or to my e-mail x@zonaxboxcom

Thanks!

X

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:31 am

ahhh - I follow the install instructions and I did it last fall. So I don't have that memorized.

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:34 am

Have you read your PM paranor - if so please respond to it

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:16 pm

I'm using Protector... I love it. I also use MSAnalysis. I found Protector to be one of those difficult installs, but eventually it worked and I would not be without it or a reasonable facsimile in the future. On my closed site it attempts to prevent multiple accounts for the same user.

Did I ever tell anyone around here the story of Sybil Online? Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:21 am

Has anyone worked out a system to block large numbers of ip addresses - lists of hacker ips

I know nukecops had a perl script that you install on your server after which it every time there is a hack attempt in nukecops community then the script checks an url on the nukecops server and the hacker gets banned from all the servers with the script.

Ive got the script somewhere ........see if i can find it

New Member Joined: Mar 23, 2004 Posts: 21

In 'ADDITION' to the PROTECTOR module, you may also want to consider the APPROVE MEMBERSHIP module which will allow you to approve/disapprove user applications.

I use it on 7.0 for a team website and it works wonderfully. You can find it at http://www.ulsoft.scarbridge.co.uk/index.php

Best Regards,
Miss Vicky