Banned and Cant find

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 06, 2004 Posts: 43

Today as I was playing-- i got myself banned from my site.
This has happened before and I was able to correct it, cept this time
I cant find where i am banned from.

nuke_nsnst_blocked_ips shows no blocked IPs
as I already dropped and re-added all Sent tables in attempt to
correct this error.

My .htaccess file in my root directory does NOT have my IP listed in any
Deny.
I dropped all Sent tables and still was not able to access site, so the IP ban must be somewhere in a file--yet i cannot find it.....
btw, it is a complete site ban. Sad

Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

do you have any other security scrits running?
And playing?
You should only do that logged in as admin.. Smile

As for not finding anything...
your IP can only be stored in the database and the htaccess file.
if your IP isnt in both...
Have you tried cleaning your cookies,.internet history....the whole stuff?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:11 am

When accessing site i get the Sent banned page.

I was logged in as God Admin when I was banned.

Internet Explorer/Firefox has both been cleaned many times over by now.

No Ip Ban in either htaccess or sql, which is why i came here since this
has never happened to me before Smile

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:24 am

well check if your in the ip ban..
even you can understand that there must be a script to ban...right?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:30 am

hitwalker wrote:

well check if your in the ip ban..
even you can understand that there must be a script to ban...right?

As I have already said. MY ip is not listed in the SQL database for a ban.
my htaccess file has NO IP'S being banned.

Yes i DO understand that there MUST be a file that has the ban listed in order for me not being able to access my site.

My Problem is i cannot find this file, since the two Normal places that Banned IP addresses go,
(htaccess and in the sql table nuke_nsnst_blocked_ips)
do not hold my IP in them.

I thought I explained this clearly in my first and second post.
Maybe the third post of saying the same thing might help?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:34 am

well your missing the point..
i mean there must be another script running.
cause banned ip's are not stored in files...(only htaccess file by sentinel)
so there must another script running...maybe IP ban ,...who knows?
Have you checked that?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:35 am

Only script I have and use that BANS ips is Sentinel

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:37 am

well if you need any help i need some logins,otherwise wait for another....

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:59 am

thanks hitwalker for the help Smile

working again and now need to find out why
I was supposed protected yet got banned Razz

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:04 am

well thats a nice question for bob...and maybe its already answered in the sentinel forum..(somewhere)

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

If there was no IP anywhere, what did you do to unban him?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:13 am

hi raven,

well....his ip was in there...banned in full..
i just went to sentinel at ABBlockedIP and there he was...

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:28 am

blacksnday, were you logged in, as admin, with an admin username that shows "Is Protected" in the admin panel of NukeSentinel(TM)?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:49 am

well i saw him banned as "admin"

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 12:49 pm

I dont want to confuse the issue here but I have had this happen to me (Sentinel V2.1.1 nuke 7.5 ) - site ban by Sentinel when logged in as God admin.

It has only happened to me when I access a specific third party module admin area from the main nuke admin area.
I thought it was perhaps something in the url string but. this is not the case.
It has happened a few times when I am at work, with our local firewall blocking cookies, so possibly a cookie issue??
It also managed to ban me at home a couple of times but this was after I started accessing the admin area from my work PC.

The bannings took places even though both my home IP and work IP were in the 'protected IP' range.

Not sure if this information helps but some info is preferable to none I guess.

I have now upgraded to the latest version so I'll see how it goes and will advise further if I manage to ban myself again - btw, I did not have the htaccess write facility turned on.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 8:45 pm

blacksnday wrote:

Today as I was playing-- i got myself banned from my site.
This has happened before and I was able to correct it, cept this time
I cant find where i am banned from.

nuke_nsnst_blocked_ips shows no blocked IPs
as I already dropped and re-added all Sent tables in attempt to
correct this error.

My .htaccess file in my root directory does NOT have my IP listed in any
Deny.
I dropped all Sent tables and still was not able to access site, so the IP ban must be somewhere in a file--yet i cannot find it.....
btw, it is a complete site ban. Sad

With all the different posts I didn't see or couldn't tell if you had said if your site is in a sub-directory or in the web root directory.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 4:00 am

he has it installed in root bob..

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:58 am

Yes, I have installed in root.
And yes I was logged in as GodAdmin.

Now for the ban showing in Sent-- Im am curious as to why it didnt show
in sql or other files?

However, another ban that Sent grabbed--- did correctly write to htaccess.
So where did my IP go when i got banned?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:57 am

well your ip showed in sentinel...going to url ABBlockedIP shows internal blocked ip's,yours was on the list so that was easy.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:23 am

blacksnday wrote:

Yes, I have installed in root.
And yes I was logged in as GodAdmin.

Now for the ban showing in Sent-- Im am curious as to why it didnt show
in sql or other files?

However, another ban that Sent grabbed--- did correctly write to htaccess.
So where did my IP go when i got banned?

What was the exact admin id that you were using when you were blocked by NukeSentinel(tm), (ip was written to the table)? i.e. i'mabigredneck

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:25 am

BobMarion wrote:

What was the exact admin id that you were using when you were blocked by NukeSentinel(tm), (ip was written to the table)? i.e. i'mabigredneck

i use the id of blacksnday for both admin and user