26 Reply by CodeXP

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

pogenwurst wrote:

I sent you my phpinfo. It's been a few hours now - still blocked.

Sorry, but I really have no idea what to do in terms of this pinging stuff.

I can access your test site fine.

If it helps at all, here are the other mods to my functions.php:
Change Page Links 1.0.1 by Michael Lanman
Private Messaging System (PMS) 1.2.1 by David Djurbäck and Connorhd
Invitations 1.0.1 by Tobi Schulz - all of this is commented out
You Can See Profile! 2.0 by Krzysztof Pawelek

It shouldn't really conflict with any mod, seeing as it doesn't re-define any variables or modify any existing functions.

As I'm not to familiar with FreeBSD, perhaps someone else here could help out with this (which seems to be the cause of the problem):
http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.ge … .php#30852

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Ok, I sent you a reply to your email.

I'm still blocked.

I'll contact my host if you want. Just tell me what to ask.

Thanks!

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28 Reply by CodeXP

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Ok, I've just released v1.1. Let me know if there's any additional features you'd like to see smile

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

hmm maybe I am just a bit slow smile
But I tryied to install this on my offline board to see how it works but I can't get it to work (or I just don't know what it is supposed to do?)

Can anybody tell me please smile

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

CodeXP wrote:

As I'm not to familiar with FreeBSD, perhaps someone else here could help out with this (which seems to be the cause of the problem):
http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.ge … .php#30852

Ok, I just sent my host (Netfirms) a support inquiry:

There is reason to believe that a problem (http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.ge … .php#30852) with PHP\'s getbyhostname() function & FreeBSD is causing a malfunction in a mod (http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8941&p=1) I have installed on my PunBB (http://punbb.org/) forum.

Is this an issue known to Netfirms? Is there any way you can fix it?

I'll let you know about their response once I receive it.

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Ok Netfirms got back to me:

Netfirms wrote:

Thank-you for your e-mail inquiry.

PHP's gethostbyname() function will return the internal IP for your webserver (192.0.34.166).  When the actual IP for your webserver is 66.244.251.18.  Unfortunately, we will be unable to make any modifications to the server configuration at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Does anyone know how to work around this? Is there an alternative function the mod can use?

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

pogenwurst wrote:

Ok Netfirms got back to me:

Netfirms wrote:

Thank-you for your e-mail inquiry.

PHP's gethostbyname() function will return the internal IP for your webserver (192.0.34.166).  When the actual IP for your webserver is 66.244.251.18.  Unfortunately, we will be unable to make any modifications to the server configuration at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Does anyone know how to work around this? Is there an alternative function the mod can use?

No, unfortunately, I don't think there is. The thing is, it needs to "ping" the remote server in some way... I'll see if I can find and alternative way, but I can't promise anything.

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

pogenwurst wrote:

Ok Netfirms got back to me:

Netfirms wrote:

Thank-you for your e-mail inquiry.

PHP's gethostbyname() function will return the internal IP for your webserver (192.0.34.166).  When the actual IP for your webserver is 66.244.251.18.  Unfortunately, we will be unable to make any modifications to the server configuration at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Does anyone know how to work around this? Is there an alternative function the mod can use?

Ok, I might have a working solution for you smile In step 6 in the readme.txt, replace:

    if ($lookup != gethostbyname($lookup)):

with

    if (@fsockopen($lookup, 80) !== FALSE):

It should work, but it is slightly slower. Still, I think it's the best way to work around your problem. Let me know if it solved the problem? smile

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Unfortunately, no. sad

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

There is a bug in the upgrade function of the installer.
In line 35, it should say

    $sql = 'ALTER TABLE '.$db->prefix.'spam_protect ADD total TINYINT(2)';

instead of 

    $sql = 'ALTER TABLE spam_protect ADD total TINYINT(2)';

wink

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36 Reply by dss

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Is there any way to unblock specific people manually?

Someone i know is not a spammer is being blocked and I would like to unblock them.

37 Reply by starshiner (edited by starshiner 2006-02-22 19:48)

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

I have the same question as dss....  has it been answered that anyone knows of?

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

starshiner wrote:

I have the same question as dss....  has it been answered that anyone knows of?

I haven't implemented that function (yet?). I started working on it at one point, but due to lack of time, I never completed it... Should be fairly easy to do though, if someone wanted to.

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

Any chance this mod will work with 1.2.19?

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

why woundt it?

Sorry. Unactive due to personal life.
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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

and with 1.3?

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

fantasma wrote:

and with 1.3?

Of course it wouldn't.

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Re: SPAM Protection MOD 1.1 [Updated Oct. 3rd, 05]

uff