Is it possible to block registration but not viewing based on IP?

[flynnibus]

ahh - that *IS* enabled. Hrmm, need to go back through the log and find out who enabled that... but that was the key setting. Thank you Zachery for pointing me in the right direction!...

[flynnibus]

The VB user banning option to block IPs blocks all access to the forum, including for guests.

Is it possible to block registration actions based on IP while not blocking guest access?...

[flynnibus]

user banning options prevents users from registering or viewing the forum - no need to use .htaccess unless you want to block all web pages

[flynnibus]

On my site - it looks like the attached file... the text in the post is simply


test
<Command><SystemUnit><MenuPassword><Set command="True"><Password>1234</Password></Set></MenuPassword></SystemUnit>...

[flynnibus]

Here is an example string

<Command><SystemUnit><MenuPassword><Set command="True"><Password>1234</Password></Set></MenuPassword></SystemUnit>...

[flynnibus]

I run a technical forum, where we often have to post xml formated strings to illustrate to some one how to structure a command. The problem is since XML looks like HTML, it gets stripped out. Even if...

[flynnibus]

Ah ha! It's there in the manual, but not clear in that there are two different methods, forumid and forumids . The devil is always in the details

Thx!

[flynnibus]

I'm trying to follow the example in the manual



http://www.broadlandshoa.org/hoaforu...rss&forumid=13

works

http://www.broadla...

[flynnibus]

blocking the most prolific domains from registering will do wonders.

both gmail and yahoo are heavily infested now. We keep yahoo open, which we get new spammers, but its at a reasonable...

[flynnibus]

For users adding tags to threads..

I see there are permissions under forum permissions per usergroup to

Can Tag Own Threads
Can Tag Others' Threads
Can Delete...

[flynnibus]

Yes, click edit tags, hover over the tag and the username who left it is shown.

Add tags is a permission in forum permissions per user group...

[flynnibus]

Complete cluster____ is what this has been. 30hrs and counting.

This exposed so many efficiencies in how they operate. From poor DNS design, to lack of resliency in their customer portal,...

[flynnibus]

We may have uncovered something.. at least with quick testing last night we had better success. It doesn't match my results 100%, but we saw a marketable improvement in our production site in quick testing....

[flynnibus]

well I got a good dataset now on a slow one.. but not max slow. This one was about a 25 second delay.. on a vb install with all plugins disabled and the styles at default. maybe now they'll actually...

[flynnibus]

Well.. I'm still been experimenting.

What I've found I believe is the problem is always in the showthread.php response after posting.

If you have redirects on, when the user...

[flynnibus]

Works in FF, doesn't work in IE

could it be this snip of code from bbcode_quote

<td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">

maybe try using...

[flynnibus]

For those that have seen this... can you isolate the following?

- do you have Remove Redirection Message Pages enabled under Cookies and HTTP Header Options in vb options?

-...

[flynnibus]

Webber - please open a ticket so maybe Jelsoft will actually start looking at these issues.

I can't disable my site for the long periods it would take to replicate this fully for them to...

[flynnibus]

Is it all emails that are failing? or Just PM ones?

Do you have any modifications installed that would play with how PMs are handled or notifications?

Your server is sending...

[flynnibus]

I caught it again today under debug... the debug values are all low in this situation. It was taking a VERY long time this time, so I quickly fired up the packet sniffer to try to capture what was happening....