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Old 01-21-2020, 11:21 PM   #21
IslandLizards
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Well, this doesn't appear to be working very well. Just got a spammer with a Ukrainian IP address. 159.224.255.154

Maybe I didn't set something up correctly?
When you use the section you are using, sometimes its not 100% up to date. Check you csf and see if that network is actually added in there.
 
Old 01-22-2020, 12:11 AM   #22
WebSlave
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When you use the section you are using, sometimes its not 100% up to date. Check you csf and see if that network is actually added in there.
Well, this poses a question. Once I run this on my server, how long will it actually be up to date? Seems like ownership of blocks of IP addresses will change quite a bit over time. But I've never looked into how allocations are actually handled at the ISP level.

Personally, when blocking IP addresses, individually and by blocks, I would periodically wipe the slate clean every year or so and start anew. If I check IP addresses on someone who has registered here many moons ago, generally the location pointed to is rarely where their stated location is. Which makes trying to match someone with someone else pretty dicey, at best.

In any event, I just got another spammer get through with a Russian IP address.

I guess I'll just have to see how much the total number of spammers registering every day works out to be after implementing this change. If it reduces the total number quite a bit, and server loading is minimal, it will be worthwhile. But do I have to somehow refresh the IPs within csf every now and again?
 
Old 01-22-2020, 02:10 PM   #23
WebSlave
Well, this just does not seem to have worked as well as I had hoped. Got 8 new spammer registrations earlier today:

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Latvia (81.198.64.178)
Russian Federation (128.71.252.49)
Ukraine (92.38.126.104)
Russian Federation (94.103.91.189)
Russian Federation (92.39.216.182)
Ukraine (178.74.204.212)
Russian Federation (188.232.6.206)
Russian Federation (193.106.241.24)
I'm running this by my server guys to see if perhaps I just didn't set this up correctly.
 
Old 01-25-2020, 07:38 PM   #24
WebSlave
Well, I let this run for a few days, and I'm still getting spammer registrations from the countries supposedly blocked. My server guys told me that this really wouldn't help much because IPV4 IP addresses change hands quite often, even between countries. So although the list gets refreshed every time csf is restarted, it will likely block IPs from countries I really don't want blocked, and will allow spammers with IPs even recognized as being from the blocked countries.

So this seemed like a real good idea to try, but unfortunately it just doesn't appear to work as well as I had hoped it would. I don't believe that the number of spammers I have to block at registration really changed any. And, of course, any using a VPN could easily sidestep this anyway.

And it might have just been my imagination, but it seemed that every now and again that my own accessing my sites would sometimes just hang up with a delay in allowing me onto the sites or make a post.

So all things considered, I disabled this function.

It was worth a shot, however.
 

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