Thread: Ip Tracking to fight spamming

Just sharing something i setup to help combat the spammers from china i have been dealing with.

I did two things first i added this code to the end of my header.inc.php

$fp = fopen("ips.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, "IP: $v_ip - DATE: $v_date\n\n");
fclose($fp);

you need to ad it before the end of all commands

second i created a simple .txt file called ips.txt and uploaded it to me root folder

now you can typ in mysite.com/ips.txt and it will list all ip's that have come to your site.

Then i just used a ip tracker to determine where the ips were and compared it to when the spammers logged in and then added their ip code to my .htaccess file with some coding to block it like this

order allow,deny

deny from 0.0.0.0

allow from all

this is a little bit of a crude method but it works.

you can type in just the first two numbers of the ip addy as well and it will block all ip's that start with those numbers so that you can block almost an entire counrty with the first two numbers

I have not tested this on D7 but it is supposed to have something like this built in with the next release

It did not work for me , it just feels the ips.txt with rows of ip : Date: but no actually IP or date is registered in it.
Perhaps you could be more specific where exactly to place your code in the header.inc.php
I placed it at the very end and I tried other places but nothing happened.
Thanks

Originally Posted by bigbird324

Just sharing something i setup to help combat the spammers from china i have been dealing with.

I did two things first i added this code to the end of my header.inc.php

$fp = fopen("ips.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, "IP: $v_ip - DATE: $v_date\n\n");
fclose($fp);

you need to ad it before the end of all commands

second i created a simple .txt file called ips.txt and uploaded it to me root folder

now you can typ in mysite.com/ips.txt and it will list all ip's that have come to your site.

Then i just used a ip tracker to determine where the ips were and compared it to when the spammers logged in and then added their ip code to my .htaccess file with some coding to block it like this

order allow,deny

deny from 0.0.0.0

allow from all

this is a little bit of a crude method but it works.

you can type in just the first two numbers of the ip addy as well and it will block all ip's that start with those numbers so that you can block almost an entire counrty with the first two numbers

I have not tested this on D7 but it is supposed to have something like this built in with the next release