Banned IP Addresses

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6/26/2010 9:30:03 AM
lgauton
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Banned IP Addresses

Hi

I've been running 6 sites on mojo for months - but last week I experienced a strange event

3 of the sites stopped responding and only presented a white page response - checking with Fiddler showed message Access denied : your IP has been banned due to spamming or hacking and this was presented to everyone who went to the site

The sites are behind a hardware load balancer and what had happened it that mojo had put the hardware load balancer IP into the banned IP list and thus the site stopped working. Taking the address out fixed the issue - but I'm concerned it will happen again

Is there any way to stop this automatic action?

6/26/2010 9:55:11 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Banned IP Addresses

Hi,

You can disable it by commenting out the BannepIPBlockingModule from the modules section of web.config

You can also delete banned ip adresses from Advanced Tools Banned IP Addreses to un ban them.

There is an issue where ip addresses get banned automatically when there are pathtoolong exceptions. This was originally intended because often malicious requests throw this error, but it turned out there are ways it can happen accidently by normal use. This will be changed for the next release so it does not automatically ban them.

Hope it helps,

Joe

5/8/2011 6:11:00 PM
raywatkins
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Re: Banned IP Addresses

Is it possible to use wildcards in the last two octets in order to ban large groups of addresses.

5/9/2011 1:39:28 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Banned IP Addresses

No, it only works with specific addresses. You can do that kind of thing with the Windows Firewall.

Best,

Joe

5/9/2011 1:51:52 PM
raywatkins
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Re: Banned IP Addresses

Great, thanks for the tip.

Ray

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