IP Blacklist isn't working

Encountered two problems:

In one case I entered the IP of a spammer and banned their account.  That person was able to become a new member with a different username FROM THE SAME BLOCKED IP.

In another case I entered the IP of a spammer and it saved as 0.0.0.0

Any solutions?

seem that everything with 200.* dont work. it create 0.0.0.0

Please check it in 7.0.4 versions, block system was rewritten, it had many problems.

I have tried the IP Blacklist and it rarely saves the IP range I put in deny. Only thing it posts is 0.0.0.0 and I am running 7.0.5

If Dolphin is intent on security, why do we have such issues as this?

why do you not just use the ban ip from cpanel it works every time

Please specify the exact values you are entering, so I will be able to reproduce the issue ?

the range is 180.190.128.0 - 180.190.191.255

Another range is 61.154.0.0 - 61.154.255.255

I could not reproduce your the issue, all values appeared as entered without any bad changes.

However I've found other problems: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2435

I suggest you to try again - make sure that you've entered IP range correctly, without any spaces or other non valid signs, valid signs are only numbers and dots.

Ok, I have used Deanos Tools and getting the IP addresses of profiles, and will copy/paste into the IP Blacklist. They always come up with 0.0.0.0 on all IP addresses where the first octet is >100. Lower IP addresses wrok fine, but this is driving me nuts.

Here is the kicker.... it is not working on 7.0.3, 7.0.4, and 7.0.5.

I dare someone at Boonex to log into my account and show me that I am wrong.  After looking into this, if it does not work, take down the module until it does work and is tested.

Frustrated.

See the result in the attachment when you click on SUBMIT... it shows success... and then the entry in the table?????

There is a problem with IPs bigger than 127.X.X.X on 32bit systems.

Please refer to the fix in this ticket text:

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2508

Also if you are using ip blocking feature make sure that "IP List Type" (in Advanced Settings -> Security) is set to 1, by default it is 0 - disabled.

I see that the issues is fixed and that it does now work. How about if someone takes a database of the integer values of all countries' ip assignments and incorporate it into a mod or base install of Boonex? It is updated monthly.

It can be done more easily using anti spam tools:

Turn on "Enable DNS Block Lists" option in Dolphin Admin Panel -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Security (You may also enable "Total block all spam content" option).

Then activate "cn.countries.nerd.dk." rule in Dolphin Admin Panel -> Tools -> Antispam Tools -> DNS Blocklist.

Please not than "cn" in the rule is China, to block or whitelist other country replace "cn" with any other country code.