By hstoellinger on

Hello,
Some months ago my Drupal 7.x site was unfortunately hit by site/s trying to use it as a streaming "stager". At that time I deleted all the nodes which were obviously added by those sites - with the consequence that I now keep getting lots of "page not found" messages when looking at "Top Visitors" in "Log Reports". Since then I did of course activate functionality such as Mollom, reCaptcha and Honeypot. These days I look at the "Top Visitors" page in Administration to find "suspicious" sites and then proceed to block these. However, blocking them by using their respective IP-address is tedious, since there are so many. Does anybody know of a way to block a whole range of IP-addresses in one go, such as block "xx.yy.0.0" to "xx.yy.255.255"? Has anybody else had a similar experience. And, if so, what did THEY do about it. Thanks in advance for any hints.
Regards
H. Stoellinger
Salzburg, Austria

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megan_m’s picture

megan_m commented

In Drupal 6 you could use percent signs as wildcards, so xx.yy.% would match anything starting with xx.yy. Drupal 7 won't let me enter that though. Looks like you need this:

https://www.drupal.org/project/ip_ranges

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hstoellinger commented

Thanks for the quick answer. I installed the module to sites/all/modules (as with all other modules), but I cannot find any tab/button etc. to specify blocked IP-addresses. What might I be missing? Thanks for your help.

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VM commented

where are you looking? Per the project page the config/admin screen would be @ admin/config/people/ip-range

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hstoellinger commented

Thanks, but on the page you suggest (i.e. admin->people) I cannot see an item ip-range.

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VM commented

what occurs if you utilize the path rather than look for a link yoursite.com/admin/config/people/ip-range

if that doesn't work, I suggest a bug. As such, research the issue queue of the module in questions for similar reports. If none, file one.

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hstoellinger commented

Thanks for the hint. Things are working now.

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mmjvb commented

or at the webserver, in htaccess if you must.

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hstoellinger commented

Good suggestion, except that I don't have access to the webserver itself, so as to be able to change the needed parameters. Will have a look at .htaccess as a possible way around.