Not a bug Approvals - Spam IP address not displayed friendly

[stromb0li]

Affected version

2.3.7

On approvals, the spam IP address isn't displayed as the IPv4/IPv6 format.

I'm not sure what format the IP address is that is shown; from what I can tell, it's not base 8 (octal) or base 10 (int).



Edit: I understand I can grab the IP address above, but it's weird that it isn't consistent.

 

[Paul B]

That is an IPv4 address.

Also, I removed the screenshot as it has IP and email.

 

[stromb0li]

I have never, in my 20 years of doing network administration, ever seen an IP address that was 4 digits long that wasn't either a base8 (octal), base10 (int), base16 (hex) of the IP address. Irrespective, the page is not consistent in displaying this.

That is an IPv4 address.

Please elaborate.

 

[Paul B]

Can you post the screenshot again without the email address.

I did not see any of the groups had 4 digits - just 2 and 3.

 

[stromb0li]

Here's another account.

After looking at this again where the username, IP address, and email both showed up instead of only IP) I then thought it was the number of entries matched in the StopForumSpam database, but for this person, I show more than a thousand results for both email and IP address; so I'm not sure what it's computing for the values.

 

[Paul B]

@stromb0li once again, do not post email addresses - I have edited the image.

That is a valid IPv4 address.
Why do you think it isn't?

 

[jeb35]

Here's another account.

After looking at this again where the username, IP address, and email both showed up instead of only IP) I then thought it was the number of entries matched in the StopForumSpam database, but for this person, I show more than a thousand results for both email and IP address; so I'm not sure what it's computing for the values.

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Yeah I don't understand either as that is a valid IPb4 address. That is saying that username has matched once, email has matched 4 times and IP address match 6790 times. So its definitely a spam account. I see that type of IP address all the time.

 

[stromb0li]

This is not a valid "ip". I thought it was trying to display the IP address when it was the only match that showed up for the first account I posted.

I didn't understand they were counts at first. Even after going to StopForumSpam, they don't show counts > 1000 so it wasn't clear what this value was. Further, for this email address, the count isn't 4, it's 1000 on their website.

 

[Paul B]

That is just the number of times the IP address has been matched in the stopforumspam database.