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RSI said:
Do you know if the rest of the bots on the list below will get blocked by this Ban VPN and Proxies add-on? I'm guessing some of them might. Alexa and Yandex are getting thru, but what about the others? I probably should make sure Bing and Yahoo are getting through at a minimum.

The guy who does the add-on below just added the robot controls to it so I no longer need the other one installed and I added Google Proxy to the list like you recommended in case people who are using that feature via their Chrome browser can get through, but what about any of the others on the list below?

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/acp-extended-acpe.5277/

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If xenforo is able to detect them as bots then they can easily bypass checking (Bing and Yahoo) but if they are using there own proxy then you can simply add custom robots.

Like :
"msn" and "bing" for bing bots as probably there user agent will have the above strings. Similarly for yahoo.

Anyhow I had not tested this with the above add-on you mentioned, I was only able to test this with custom robots add-on.
 
By the way, they did start adding VPN access via the latest iPhone iOS, but it won’t currently work here in the U.S. until the wireless cell providers like Verizon and AT&T start adding it to their packages. That's why it’s their now. People have been trying to currently make it work with other VPN services, but it won’t. It will be required to work via your wireless cell provider only. Those providers are not stupid, once they figure out people are willing to pay for a false sense of security they will start offering the service. My guess is they already know. It may keep others from seeing your IP address, but they themselves will still track your usage and use or sell that data regardless.

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I discovered a problem last night. My hosting company (origin server) had gone down a few times and maybe because they were cleaning up the recent Google Docs app virus and when it when down the first and second time CloudFare did not have the cached snapshot of my site. When it came back up I quickly disabled this add-on and when it went down the third time the cached snapshot was there. Apparently, this add-on is preventing CloudFare from being able to cache my site which is a major problem.

Do you have any idea as to why it’s blocking everything from being cached and how to fix it?
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RSI said:
Do you have any idea as to why it’s blocking everything from being cached and how to fix it?
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okay i found that cloudflare IP (will fix) are detected as Hosting Provider and for check online bot of cloudflare you can add a custom robot with "cloudflare" as string.
 
I did add all of the cloudfare ip's to the whitelist, but I'm not sure it did anything. They do add more and change them from time to time.

CloudFlare IP's (IPv4)

103.21.244.0/22

103.22.200.0/22

103.31.4.0/22

104.16.0.0/12

108.162.192.0/18

131.0.72.0/22

141.101.64.0/18

162.158.0.0/15

172.64.0.0/13

173.245.48.0/20

188.114.96.0/20

190.93.240.0/20

197.234.240.0/22

198.41.128.0/17

199.27.128.0/21

CloudFlare IP's (IPv6)

2400:cb00::/32

2405:8100::/32

2405:b500::/32

2606:4700::/32

2803:f800::/32

2c0f:f248::/32

2a06:98c0::/29
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RSI said:
I did add all of the cloudfare ip's to the whitelist, but I'm not sure it did anything. They do add more and change them from time to time.

CloudFlare IP's (IPv4)

103.21.244.0/22

103.22.200.0/22

103.31.4.0/22

104.16.0.0/12

108.162.192.0/18

131.0.72.0/22

141.101.64.0/18

162.158.0.0/15

172.64.0.0/13

173.245.48.0/20

188.114.96.0/20

190.93.240.0/20

197.234.240.0/22

198.41.128.0/17

199.27.128.0/21

CloudFlare IP's (IPv6)

2400:cb00::/32

2405:8100::/32

2405:b500::/32

2606:4700::/32

2803:f800::/32

2c0f:f248::/32

2a06:98c0::/29
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I also did a test on mine end and cloudflare Ip were no issues for me as add-on bypassed, anyhow as per cloudflare docs there user agent has cloudflare string so adding a custom robots as cloudflare would be quite useful. For making sure that it worked, need to wait for 24 hrs. Also there are some issue on cloudflare end also as I don't see any analytics for any of my website for last 24 hrs. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
 
I uninstalled the add-on last night and was going to play around with it again, but it won't reinstall. It says duplicate column already found. Looks like it left part of it or all of it in the database.

I was/am using v3.0.0b
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RSI said:
I uninstalled the add-on last night and was going to play around with it again, but it won't reinstall. It says duplicate column already found. Looks like it left part of it or all of it in the database.

I was/am using v3.0.0b
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Seems like I forgot to remove column of iphub from ban up db, I will fix it in some time.
 
Is this the one, xf_iphub_ip ? I can drop the table or column if I know exactly which one it is and where. I just need to make sure I'm dropping the correct one.

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Server Error

Mysqli statement execute error : Duplicate column name 'iphub_value'
  1. Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_execute() in Zend/Db/Statement.php at line 297
  2. Zend_Db_Statement->execute() in Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php at line 479
  3. Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query() in Justin/JProxy/Install/Install.php at line 23
  4. Justin_JProxy_Install_Install::install() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 214
  5. XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 169
  6. XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXmlFromFile() in XenForo/ControllerAdmin/AddOn.php at line 188
  7. XenForo_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstall() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 351
  8. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
  9. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/me/public_html/admin.php at line 13
 
RSI said:
Server Error

Mysqli statement execute error : Duplicate column name 'iphub_value'
  1. Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_execute() in Zend/Db/Statement.php at line 297
  2. Zend_Db_Statement->execute() in Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php at line 479
  3. Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query() in Justin/JProxy/Install/Install.php at line 23
  4. Justin_JProxy_Install_Install::install() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 214
  5. XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 169
  6. XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXmlFromFile() in XenForo/ControllerAdmin/AddOn.php at line 188
  7. XenForo_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstall() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 351
  8. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
  9. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/me/public_html/admin.php at line 13
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RSI said:
Is this the one, xf_iphub_ip ? I can drop the table or column if I know exactly which one it is and where. I just need to make sure I'm dropping the correct one.

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you can drop that table xf_iphub_ip if addon is not installed , the the column iphub_value is in xf_ip_match table , you need to drop it from their. i will gonna update the code now.
 
Is there anyway to set this up so if they are using a VPN it moves them to another usergroup?
 
for the last day or so i have this error
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can anyone tell me whats causing this?
 
Okay will purchase this shortly here. So many issues with plugins on our site so we're cleaning things up then we'll add more.
 
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