Why all banned IP adressed are gone (or better: unbanned?)

by **Mr_White** on Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:57 pm

Makes lot more work (again) ....

so: wtf happened????

by **sbando** on Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:49 pm

I screwed it up, what else. I'm sorry.

by **sbando** on Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:59 pm

I must've reset the list of ips while trying to unban someone.
Again, sorry. I'll constantly keep an eye on the forum and try to rebuild it.

by **Frigo** on Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:21 am

I was only gone for 4 days and than such things happen already? bad boy Sbando

by **sbando** on Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:19 pm

Don't ever leave me again :cry:

!!!

by **Frigo** on Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:13 am

I won't until next Venus show!

by **Mr_White** on Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:57 am

....... who left whom alone this time? :?:

C´mon boys, that´s very far away from being funny! :!:

All blocked IP´s gone , all banned emails gone and the banned user list also was blank, when I logged in some 5 minutes ago .....

:shock:

*Switches into sarcastic mode*
Well, thanks.
*Sarcastic mode off*

____

Just the small amount of 22 spammers used that scenario to register themselves within the last 24 hours. Guess that´s not that bad, or is it?
:roll:

by **noproblemo** on Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:24 am

There was a problem when I restarted the apache server and mysql yesterday evening.
Also, I'd like to know if these spammers are real persons or bots.
But why do you ban *@gmail.com?
We always get emails from valid users who cannot register to the forum...

by **Mr_White** on Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:32 am

noproblemo wrote:But why do you ban *@gmail.com?

....... well, because 12 out of the forementioned 22 used an email adress ending with @gmail.com

:idea:

by **sbando** on Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:08 pm

Is there a way to prune users with less than 2 messages?
Do we need a mod or can it be done from the admin panel (looked but couldn't find it).

This time White it was the board's fault.
Do we back up posts and users on a regular basis?

by **Mr_White** on Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:53 pm

sbando wrote:Is there a way to prune users with less than 2 messages?

..... unfortunately with phpBB Forums there is no such option. That´s why spammers like this format of forum so much .....

by **Frigo** on Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:54 pm

sbando wrote:Do we back up posts and users on a regular basis?

do we have backups at all of the forum? Nop?

by **noproblemo** on Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:40 pm

Frigo wrote:
sbando wrote:Do we back up posts and users on a regular basis?

do we have backups at all of the forum? Nop?

Yes, every night.
I can give you the URL of the mysql backup file if you want one copy for you just in case (it's about 56 megs)

Also, on friday I've modified the code image generation algorithm of phpBB to prevent spammer bots to automatically register by using OCR software.
It seems to work, for now :wink:

The thursday problem was due to some clients repeatedly calling the forum register page and this page was slowing down our server because it's cpu expensive. This burst occured only on thursday and friday night though. See graph:

by **Frigo** on Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:58 pm

great work as always Nop. One day you have to teach me the coding stuff

by **sbando** on Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:02 pm

Is it possible to prune the user database, deleting all entries with less than one post?

Why all banned IP adressed are gone (or better: unbanned?)

Why all banned IP adressed are gone (or better: unbanned?)

so, .........

hmmm, .......

no, ......

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