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#11118 IP-Blacklist "Range" not working

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:02 CST

Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:37 CST

user55993

Joomla! version: 1.5.25
PHP version: 5
MySQL version: 5.2.13
Admin Tools version: stable Release 2.1.14

Description of my issue: we detected a spammer from a german internet-provider. in the whois was given a rage of ip-adresses for that specific provider. So we decided to temporarily block the whole ip-range i.e. 109.230.244.0-109.230.245.255 in the negative-list under the firewall-section of ATPRO.
After that, the hacker with the IP 109.230.245.12 came back and could successfully create an account.
I think, ATPRO should have blocked this login, but it didn't - what's wrong?
ATPRO is in the first order under the "system" plugins.

Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:48 CST

nicholas

Have you enabled the IP blacklisting in the WAF Configuration page? By default it's not enabled, therefore any IPs entered in the black-list have no effect.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:57 CST

user55993

OK that might be the solution. I meant that I had enabled this at the first config, but it wasn't. So sorry about disturbing you and thanks for your help :)

Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:02 CST