TPU: Detect and Block Spam Registrations 1.6.6

[Xon]

@BamaStangGuy try turning off the port knocking options if you are doing outbound firewalling.

Additionally, this add-on requires reliable, and fast, DNS.

 

[Brent W]

No go. Nothing has changed over night with our servers and this is happening across three different servers in two different data centers.

 

[Brent W]

Any cli commands I can run to test via shell?

 

[eva2000]

The github code does work.

Please make sure DNS is working, and run the following commands and report if they fail:

curl https://freegeoip.net/json/8.8.8.8
or
wget https://freegeoip.net/json/8.8.8.8

These should output something like:

{"ip":"8.8.8.8","country_code":"US","country_name":"United States","region_code":"CA","region_name":"California","city":"Mountain View","zip_code":"94040","time_zone":"America/Los_Angeles","latitude":37.3845,"longitude":-122.0881,"metro_code":807}

interesting i am using official addon's code not github version and

this works for me

http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8

curl http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8
{"as":"AS15169 Google Inc.","city":"Mountain View","country":"United States","countryCode":"US","isp":"Google","lat":37.3845,"lon":-122.0881,"org":"Google","query":"8.8.8.8","region":"CA","regionName":"California","status":"success","timezone":"America/Los_Angeles","zip":"94040"}

while this hangs for me

curl https://freegeoip.net/json/8.8.8.8

curl-4v https://freegeoip.net/json/8.8.8.8
* About to connect() to freegeoip.net port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 104.131.63.168... Connection timed out
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

dig +short freegeoip.net
104.131.63.168

maybe need to include fallback services as backup ?

another one i use for centmin mod to determine VPS geo data is http://ipinfo.io/ 1000 requests/day free and backed by AWS Route53 latency based dns

curl http://ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
{
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "region": "California",
  "country": "US",
  "loc": "37.3845,-122.0881",
  "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
  "postal": "94040"
}

 

[Xon]

Looks like freegeoip.net is down, but this will only affect people using the github version.

I've started work to make the geoip API handling more robust; Determining an IP's country via arbitrary API

 

[ManagerJosh]

Anyone figured out why Country Codes are still XX?

 

[Aceros]

What's the status on this? Looks like something my community could really benefit from!

 

[Xon]

What's the status on this? Looks like something my community could really benefit from!

Released version works fine for me on XF 1.5.6

There is a learning process as you block problematic ISPs which host VPNs/Proxies/etc as you become aware of them but that is about it.

 

[Aceros]

Thanks Xon, trying it out. The country based filtering is really what interest me, 99% of our spam comes from Pakistan & India according to our StopForumSpam reports.

 

[marcv]

Does the package here on XF work with XF 1.5.4 and up? The posts in this discussion are murky on this and can't tell if the ip lookup was ever fixed.

Is the developer still going to do releases to keep this maintained or is it abandoned at this point?

 

[Aceros]

@marcv I'm running the one linked here (not the Git one) & it's working fine on 1.5.6 & 1.5.7

Since install and initial tweaks 0 spammers have made it through (10 days now). Very impressed with this addon!

99% of my spam was from Pakistan & India so this was perfect.

Quick question, is it possible to assign pts or full reject users with a homepage?
(Have it disabled through template until 3 posts so only spammers register with one).

 

[rainmotorsports]

Getting ErrorException: Undefined variable: dns - library/TPUDetectSpamReg/AS.php:40 on every registration?

 

[eva2000]

Getting ErrorException: Undefined variable: dns - library/TPUDetectSpamReg/AS.php:40 on every registration?

same here

 

[Xon]

Getting ErrorException: Undefined variable: dns - library/TPUDetectSpamReg/AS.php:40 on every registration?

same here

I've contributed a fix for that, but master has freegeoip.net references which is sadlly quite slow and unstable.

This branch has just the fix: https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip

 

[eva2000]

thanks @Xon

 

[vij]

I've contributed a fix for that, but master has freegeoip.net references which is sadlly quite slow and unstable.

This branch has just the fix: https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip

How do we use this @Xon - Download the version on XF and then overwrite the files with this? Pl advice.

 

[Xon]

How do we use this @Xon - Download the version on XF and then overwrite the files with this? Pl advice.

That works. It is exactly the same structrue as the zip you download via the Download link on resource manage.

 

[adwade]

It (https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip) is exactly the same structrue as the zip you download via the Download link on resource manage.

@wizzard @Xon As a non-coder, this declaration is still a little bit too cryptic for me to understand.
(i.e. Does 'same structure' imply 'same contents'? )

From reading every post since the last official update posted here (i.e. v1.6.4 on Dec 2, 2015) I gather to obtain the most current and best fixed code available one would:
a)Download & Install v1.6.4
b)Then download https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip and only apply the add-on-TPUDetectSpamReg.xml file.

-- Or, is it simply --
​

c)Download and install https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip

 

[Xon]

@wizzard @Xon As a non-coder, this declaration is still a little bit too cryptic for me to understand.
(i.e. Does 'same structure' imply 'same contents'? )

The link is a valid XenForo add-on which various add-on installers know how to install, or if you upload the contents of the upload folder and install the zip it will work.

c)Download and install https://github.com/Xon/XenForo_TPUDetectSpamReg/archive/fix_null_as.zip

Just do this.

 

[Joe Link]

Just do this.

Can I use your version to upgrade from 1.5.0?