I have read and installed the mods to block URL's and block cheaters in the rate.pl file. Yes they are great!
BUT.. .
. .. I am still being spammed by people who are submitting domains ending in .de etc... and porno sites. We do not accept these into our local (to BC Canada) directory.
One person seems to be doing alot of the submitting, and the persons IP addy is the same, or close to the same it is: p3ee39dc6.dip.t-dialin.net OR p3ee3fd3c.dip.t-dialin.net - you get the point, when he dials into his tele dial up service his IP is changed a little each time.
NOW I did a search on the addy and found out that the part that stays the same is: " t-dialin.net ".
Is there a mod, where I can enter the IP addy of the dial up service as above, so that users of that service cannot submit?

Thank You in advance!
Tammy

There are one or two very comprehensive threads that deal with these submission services. Click on the following link: German spammers.

Thomas
http://links.japanref.com

nslookup t-dialin.net


via shell/telnet/MS-DOS



Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thanx for your quick reply!
NOW - I have read these and implemented these so far:

1) allow referer ( our domain only )
2) add-confirm mod ( slowed them down, but did not stop, now they just go threw the steps )
3) cookies ( but they do not stop someone from a telephone dial up service with a base IP addy from submitting more then one site, if the site has a different URL ) (they also allow someone to submit about a day later)(they also clean out their cookie file, or turn off cookies)
4)addsite.txt method of recording numbers

Today - I am puttin in the code:
banned log file.


Now what I am really looking for today, is what I had originally posted, which is a mod that would check the dial up IP addy of the person trying to submit. and if the IP addy is in say a banned IP file, then they would not be allowed to post. when I researched the IP addy I found that the end stayed the same so maybe being able to ban the end, with a wildcard character infront would be a good solution.

Can someone come up with a code for that?
I thank you very much in advance.

Tammy

Thanks Eliot,

What does that mean?

nslookup t-dialin.net
via shell/telnet/MS-DOS

I do most of my checking here: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi

Tammy

Uh...type in the command I gave you and the domain name and on most occassions, you will get back the PRIMARY IP address of that server.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thanx,
But how do I implement blocking that primary IP addy of that domain?

Uh...you add that list the array you've created for BLOCKING IP Addresses! You have installed that Mod, correct?

If not, codes were provided for BLOCKING IP Addresses two days ago..search the forum....

Regards,

Eliot Lee

There is one problem with blocking the IP of this provider.
Because you will be blocking a fourth level IP, (i.e. 1st.2nd.3rd.4th format of IP address), you will be blocking not only the bad user, but genuine users of that ISP and possibly even genuine users from other ISPs which use the same 1st, 2nd and 3rd level IPs. That means that you could potentially be blocking many thousands of users from using your site. If I was you, I would be pretty concerned about this.

Just a quick (real-life) example:
BTinternet use the IP range for dial-up accounts 197.24.93.1xx

but, Blue Chip ISP also use this IP range. Not only are blocking BTinternet's hundreds of thousands of users, you are also blocking Blue Chip's.

Do you understand what I am getting at?

Search for Ultimate Links and post a msg on what mods to include in a super Links.

Thanks RinceWind,
Yes I knew that I would be blocking all users in the fashion you describe, for us though, we are just a local directory for a community in British Columbia Canada. I am not worried about blocking submissions from Germany, as we don't allow them anyway. And this is why it has been such a problem for us.

I was unable to get the blockurl.txt to handle IP addresses, I did however solve my problem for today, and I posted the outcome here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/forum/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=L2Cust&Number=147813&page=0&view=&sb=&vc=1#Post147813

I do realize that this will not help all people, but it should help some.

!again thanx!

In reply to Eliot telling me to do searches, I have been searching on this forum for days, and I do not usually post anything until AFTER I have read and tried all I can find on the topic.
Sometimes Eliot answers with a question, or very small comment, and when people are not as fluent in the LINGO as he, he seems to sound frustrated. Sorry to cause this.
Thanx to all!
Tammy

Don't know what your problem is!!!

Read the following Thread!!!

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...&vc=1#Post147194

I provided a LINK to the BLOCK URL MOD, which you can use to also BLOCK IP ADDRESSES!

FOUND it in less than TWO minutes using the forum search form!

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thank you Eliot,
I don't really have a problem, but I guess if I did, you may not understand it.
I did earnistly search for a few days, filtering out the clutter, and conversations like this one.
When I put IP addresses into the mod, it did not work.

I guess by the link you provide I was suppose to re-write the mod for the purpose of IP addys.
I got it to work, just by placing '.de' into the blockurl.txt. I am just hoping that by doing that I have not
dis-allowed entry of a domain with a name like: deannes.com - I will test that tonight.

Thanks for your help.
Tammy

Uh...not really...for the BLOCK URL MOD, you can ADD IP Addresses and it does work, trust me, I have it working in both LINKS 2.0 and LINKS SQL web sites...

Best of luck finding a solution...

Regards,

Eliot Lee