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#13727 Lot's of autoblock IP adresses

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 02 October 2012 09:30 CDT

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 09:12 CDT

brainynl
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.7)
PHP version: (5.3.5 )
MySQL version: (5.1.47)
Host: (webreus.nl)
Admin Tools version: 2.4.0

Description of my issue:

One of my websites is champion in blocking IP addresses, sometimes up to ten per day. The configuration is exact the same as other websites who almost never block any IP address.

Is this particular website under heavy attack or am I missing something?

2012-10-02 12:33:25 145.72.98.1
Add to Black List Bad Behaviour Tooltip( = required header accept missing.)
http://www.notarisweggemans.nl/component/search/?format=opensearch
 Best regards, Hein
brainy.nl

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 09:30 CDT

nicholas
Please note that Bad Behaviour is a third party library which is known to have an itchy trigger finger. As documented in the big red box:
Bad Behaviour is a third party library which is very aggressive in marking incoming requests as potential attacks. In other words, it is known to throw a lot of false positives (marking legitimate requests as attacks). Usually this is caused by an external site performing a POST request to your site instead of a GET request. If you get a lot of false positives which prevent legitimate users from accessing your site, please DISABLE the Bad Behaviour integration feature in Admin Tools. We consider it a "paranoid security option" and we most usually don't enable it on our own sites.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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