[mark5019]

850 pm

 

[AV8R]

forums hanging some

Warning and banning isn't enough?! :shock:

 

[mountainpass]

forums hanging some

Warning and banning isn't enough?! :shock:

Well they asked for it.

 

[EJR914]

I hope they found an experienced hangman... if you do it wrong it certainly makes a mess. You can be doing the dance of death for an hour or more. :shock:

 

[Gunstar1]

I think it is because of the recent ip bans I have been doing because of spammers. I will contact support and see if there is a better way to do it than the htaccess file. (I got tired of banning the individual spammers so I started banning the ranges for entire countries.. the file is kind of large now)

 

[EJR914]

Interesting, GS1. Thank you for doing such a good job with the spammers. There certainly has seemed to be a rash of them, but as a whole, you have done an excellent job of keeping them off of this site.

 

[AV8R]

I think it is because of the recent ip bans I have been doing because of spammers. I will contact support and see if there is a better way to do it than the htaccess file. (I got tired of banning the individual spammers so I started banning the ranges for entire countries.. the file is kind of large now)

I do this on 3 sites that I manage. Once I got a good list built up with some pretty broad ranges, the spam slowed way down to just several comments per day where it was once 200-300 per day.

 

[Match10]

This is my Server Farmer's article. We use this, among other things.

http://gidenski.com/?p=650

 

[AV8R]

This is my Server Farmer's article. We use this, among other things.

http://gidenski.com/?p=650

That's awesome! How big is too big for the .htaccess file? If I go about blocking all the places I need to, that's gonna be a hefty file.

 

[Gunstar1]

This is my Server Farmer's article. We use this, among other things.

http://gidenski.com/?p=650

That's awesome! How big is too big for the .htaccess file? If I go about blocking all the places I need to, that's gonna be a hefty file.

The country ip blocks website says you just have to check your performance after adding them to see. My htaccess is now nearly .5 mb but I saw a little slowdown after I first did it when it was around .25 mb.

Right now I only have 7 countries blocked.

 

[Gunstar1]

Interesting, GS1. Thank you for doing such a good job with the spammers. There certainly has seemed to be a rash of them, but as a whole, you have done an excellent job of keeping them off of this site.

The thanks for cleaning goes to the Moderators. I have only been throwing them out and trying to keep them out. The mods are the ones cleaning up the mess.

 

[Match10]

Sadly, I get hundreds popping up at new addresses as fast as I slap them. I approve every one, then send them to a moderated forum where I observe the first five postings, after that, they are promoted if they behave themselves. Some even know this, and wait until ten posts to spam my forum.

You can do a lot with the folks here too:

http://stopforumspam.com/

There are a couple of phpBB addins that are effective I hear. (I use some of the vBulletin ones.)

 

[Gunstar1]

Sadly, I get hundreds popping up at new addresses as fast as I slap them. I approve every one, then send them to a moderated forum where I observe the first five postings, after that, they are promoted if they behave themselves. Some even know this, and wait until ten posts to spam my forum.

You can do a lot with the folks here too:

http://stopforumspam.com/

There are a couple of phpBB addins that are effective I hear. (I use some of the vBulletin ones.)

This looks great, thanks.

 

[Gunstar1]

The host told me of a firewall software they use on their shared servers and I have installed it and am currently playing with the settings. http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html

I have cpanel on this server and it installed on it and allows direct editing of iptables from WHM. It also will do automatic grabs of 2 different block lists (spamhaus and dshield) as well as simply allowing you to enter the country code to deny the entire country (or allow only certain countries). There is even a place for you to be able to make up your own list and put it as a text file on your webserver for it to grab at whatever time interval you choose.

It also does a bunch of other stuff like monitoring login attempts and temporarily bans if someone tries to access SSH X number of times in X minutes. I have already seen one ip in brazil be banned.

Best of all the software is free.

 

[Gunstar1]

Definitely was the htaccess file. After I turned on the 2 blocklists I deleted all the entries in the htaccess file and uploaded it. Forum speed increased immediately.

 

[mountainpass]

Yep I just noticed!

 

[EJR914]

Interesting, GS1. Thank you for doing such a good job with the spammers. There certainly has seemed to be a rash of them, but as a whole, you have done an excellent job of keeping them off of this site.

The thanks for cleaning goes to the Moderators. I have only been throwing them out and trying to keep them out. The mods are the ones cleaning up the mess.

Gotcha. They have been doing a great job at moderating. I've noticed that their threads are very quickly being locked when reported.

Good job to both of you, including the Moderators here. Great job.

 

[EJR914]

Yep I just noticed!

I noticed it as well. That's really cool. Problem seems to be solved.

 

[Match10]

I have already seen one ip in brazil be banned.

What is the IP...? I am having a heck of a time with one or two there, and cannot see something wrong.... They look legit. ...Yet my spidey-senses are tingling.

 

[mark5019]

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