[Plugin: VSF Simple Block] Tried three times:impossible

Hi StarCapt,

As I stated before:
“If you’d like me to help you look in to the issue, please sign up to my blog and post me a message on there.“

Go to https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/ – create yourself an account and post a message… That way I will be able to help you out. Otherwise you’re just bleating on about it not working and refusing to let me help you which isn’t exactly a very constructive thing to do.

Regards
Victoria

Hi StarCapt,

Right,

1. Check that the following command works:
SELECT vsfBlockCheckHit('127.0.0.1', 'www.007guard.com', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13', false);
That should return a number between 0 and 5. If you don’t get a result then you’ll need to try re-installing the plugin. Also, check you have access to add and run stored procedures

2. If number 1 worked, I’ll ideally need the output of the following:
SELECT * FROM wp_vsf_block;

3. I’ll ideally need the output of the following:
SELECT * FROM wp_vsf_block_hits;

4. I’ll ideally need the output of the following:
SELECT * FROM wp_vsf_block_rules;

Also, note that in the current version available (0.2.1 and below), you will need to remove leading and trailing spaces on IP addresses. E.g. [space]192.168.0.1 will fail.

5. Post me an example of an ip address you are trying to block, E.g. 192.168.0.1

Victoria

I had the same problem, I found when using IP range you had to enter two sets of numbers.

192.168.0.101 to 192.168.0.110

that would be the range and it worked for me.

even easier was changing the setting to from IP to host in the drop down menu and still using the single IP of the visitor in “value”. No range required that way and that worked just as well.

Hi dq_wood,

If you are using “IP Address” in the drop down, entering an ip in “value” box only is a match against only that ip, but if you entered it in only “IP to (Range)”, it expects a value in “value” and the second field and would fail.

I might try to change the current version I’m working on so that if “IP Address” is selected in the drop down, the label “value” is changed to “IP”, which might make more sense than “value”.

Thanks
Victoria

I like the value because instead of writing code to get rid of spiders (and there are countless numbers of them) and many don’t respect robot.txt anyway, its easier to enter their dot.com in the value field. Because they change the first part up when you block them (usually an IP address and not within a defined range, generally a drastically different number), but the name.com is always the same. And VSF seems to do a good job of keeping them out.

Same with spammers using various different IP’s that don’t work within a close range (96.1.4.23 and lets say 56.5.201.4) if you created a range between those two numbers you would also block out legit visitors whose IP falls somewhere in between.

So I guess Im saying I like the “Value” area. ??