Blocking Countries In ACP

[woodmj]

Hi, I'm having a big problem with brute force hack attempts at member passwords on my forum. All the IP addresses seem to be Chinese so gathering an IP block list from another site I put all this info into Member Banning Options in the ACP. I also added them to the DENY section of my Apache config but alas they still seem to get through causing problems. I just wondered if there was something I was missing or maybe something else I could do? It's becoming a real pain.

[Guest]

You have to block the IP range through .htaccess

Try to add the China IP range via this tool:

http://www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx

[woodmj]

Thanks. I've had about 95% success with this through a combined list of China and Hong Kong. The strange thing is sometimes IPs from Hong Kong still get through. China doesn't but Hong Kong does sometimes for some reason.

You have to block the IP range through .htaccess

Try to add the China IP range via this tool:

http://www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx

[Guest]

Maybe not 100% up to date. You could add the other IP ranges manually though.

BTW what you could do, note a IP addres that comes through and fill it out at:

http://www.geoiptool.com/

GEO Ip will tell you the country it comes from, maybe it is another country you have to block to be sure.