Blocker Configuration

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

Can anyone please tell me the best configuration for nuke sentinel blockers. it seems like lot of my valued users are getting block for no reason what so ever. so i really appreciate if someone can tell me the correct configurations.

Palbin · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:55 am

Usually the default setup is fine. If you have a lot of user getting blocked we need to know what the message they are getting says.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

especially they are getting block from the "GET" Request Method.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

Do i need to keep the blockers off? my all blockers configured to block, forward and email.

fkelly · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:31 am

As Palbin stated, we really need to know what is happening that is leading to the blocking. On some of my sites I've had problems with people copying and pasting from Word into the wysiwyg text areas for instance. Word puts a lot of codes into what it copies over that NS chokes on. You can paste as plain text and the codes get stripped out but so does the formatting. So, if what's happening is that people are submitting news articles or calendar items and using paste from Word you will want to either disable copy from Word or turn off certain blockers. But we need to know first if that's the cause.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

so can i ask one thing. in default configurations most of the blockers are in email admin. is that enough to keep the hackers away.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

This is what i get mostly in my emails

Created By: NukeSentinel(tm) 2.6.03
Date & Time: 2010-06-16 21:47:38 MDT GMT -0600
Blocked IP: 174.129.146.212
User ID: Anonymous (1)
Reason: Abuse-Harvest
String Match: curl
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Referer: none
User Agent: PycURL/7.18.2
HTTP Host:

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Script Name: /modules.php
Query String: name=News&file=article&sid=505
Get String: name=News&file=article&sid=505
Post String: Not Available
Forwarded For: none
Client IP: none
Remote Address: 174.129.146.212
Remote Port: 44933
Request Method: HEAD
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zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

Request Method: HEAD and Request Method: GET is getting block always.

montego · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:27 am

Ok, what kind of site are you running then? If these are truly your site users, it looks like they are making connections to your site from some other software running on their computers, not a browser. This is highly unusual... these types of blocks are usually quite common and desired.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

montego wrote:

Ok, what kind of site are you running then? If these are truly your site users, it looks like they are making connections to your site from some other software running on their computers, not a browser. This is highly unusual... these types of blocks are usually quite common and desired.

Hi Mr.montego. nice to see you again. helping people even after you resign from RN. anyways i have a music site. it have lot of mp 3 downloads. can it be they are using a software like "Internet download manager" or "getright"?

montego · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:16 am

Yes, that very well could be. If you do not care about people ripping your content with these kinds of auto-downloaders, then I would just turn off your Harvestor blocker. The HEAD and GET ones are a bit disconcerting to turn those off, but you may have no choice if this type of downloading is really a key feature for your customers.

zacklk · Regular Joined: Mar 06, 2010 Posts: 74

thanks for the advice sir.