Large Forum Seeking To Block Proxies. Can It Be Done?
Jun 5, 2008
I am a staff member at Markee Dragon (www.markeedragon.com), a large gaming targeted forum. We have a slight dilemma. We are looking for ways to stop as many proxies as possible from entering the website. We don't want the hassle of single IP banning and are looking for something somewhat automated. From my experience there is not much you can do with proxies but hopefully I am wrong and someone knows a solution to this.
The reason we are trying to have proxies blocked is because of the nature of the website.
We are a trading site and scamming has given Markee Dragon somewhat of a bad name and we are trying to combat against that. Most of the scammers who are banned just evade the bans through proxies.
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Apr 26, 2007
I'd like to block off large ranges of IP's, much like the iptables does for a Linux server. I want to cut out China and a few others completely? Can I do that just with the standard Win 2003? I know the IIS has tables, but I need to also include all things outside the IIS too. What software is better for this?
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Nov 7, 2008
sometimes, some people may try to guess the password of ssh,whm,ftp,...etc,
or any ddos attack,
do you only use iptables to place this problem?
or do you install any other scripts to secure your server?
my serve is centso.
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Jul 27, 2008
I have webservers running apache with squid on front, and some of the servers need to have another squid server on front of them, so that makes two squid proxies on front of apache. I need apache to see the real IP of the client, so I found this apache module mod_rpaf, supposely it can do what i want, but I can only get it to work with one proxy, even I add the second proxy IP in RPAFproxy_ips directives, it still only able to see through one proxy, the client IP will be shown as one of the proxy instead of the real client IP. Anybody has experience with mod_rpaf? does it able to see through multiple proxies?
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Mar 13, 2008
I've been looking everywhere for a half decent, affordable, windows web hosting company. Everyone has CPanel/Linux, and I'm looking for Plesk + Windows. I'm gonna be buying a dedi soon that will run on windows, but I want some shared hosting too.
If you could refer me to some decent hosts, that would be great (and I hate oversellers)
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Sep 10, 2008
if you know any premium VPS hosts.
Their price on the *Smallest Package* must be around $50 - $70.
I will not consider any companies that carry $20.00 VPS packages.
I want a rock solid VPS.
No Mickey Mouse, Dollar hosting for me.
What I want:
Linux,
C-panel or Hsphere
Fantastic - not important
Disk space - not important (finding a good host is more important. I can always buy more disk space)
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May 3, 2008
about companies who offer cheap prices are honest and allow proxies:
I don't have a budget on my mind i only want to know the alternatives and make a list on my mind, Europe or U.S. are both ok.
I prefer other providers i don't know about because right now i know about FDCservers, Softlayer and iWeb
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Dec 27, 2007
im hosting my proxies on one vps now as we all now they take up alot of ram and cpu so i was wondering if you have any tips on how to optimize the vps for proxies, a few thought i had if you could help me put them into practice.disable mail as i wouldnt use it at all Catch php scripts and pages
disable cgi optimise apache/php/mysql optimise/make better use of ram
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I need to ask, what's best company of Secuity and Safe servers.
So I hope any one can answer my seeking.
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Jun 2, 2007
to run a proxy network on either HostEasier [url]or FDCServers VDS #2 ,
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Jan 9, 2007
Me and a friend want to buy a really cheap server. We're kind of tired of buying hosting of people, VPS, dedi even if the price is really cheap.
For once we'd just like a little server ourself. We are located in the UK.
We're hoping to spend max £110. So far we ain't been able to get a good deal for that much.
(tried ebay)
To make a pc - it would cost us more than that pricewise. To buy an old one and do few upgrades.. it would still cost us a bomb.
Do you know where I can purchase cheap pre-built webservers direct? I can't seem to find any websites. There mostly £200+
Also I'm hoping to run windows platform (mainly due to near null experiance with Linux), what simple software can I install to get:
FTP
Webpages//PHP
DNS
running? (other than apache which still look's complex).
My main problem is where to buy a cheap server.
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Are there any FutureHosting customers out there (Dallas Datacenter) who wouldn't mind PM'ing me their domains to test SMTP response time tomorrow? I have a server with them that is showing intermittent SMTP timeouts and response time spikes close to 20 seconds and I am trying to figure out if it is something on my node or the network.
I don't need anything special other than a domain name -- I won't be pushing email through the server just need to know how quickly the SMTP service provides a welcome message and responds to a HELO command. I will share any reports I produce with you.
The spikes are just occuring during business hours and support is having difficult tracking down the issue.
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Jun 20, 2009
During last week, two of our clients' accounts got compromised (most probably due to weak passwords) and there was a CGI script installed which started sending emails to more than 200,000 email accounts. This email addresses were stored in a text file.
By the time we noticed this activity, our server got black listed on major RBLs like Barracuda, SpamCop, Spamhaus etc and it took around 2 days to cleanup
3 days later, another account compromised with same *thing* and it really is pain in the arse now dealing with this and angry clients
We've already implemented a policy to restrict users to send 100 messages/per hour/domain which is working, but it seems this *thing* bypass exim.
I guess this Open Proxy Servers a Source of Spam is what i want to explain!
So my question is, if I've understood this right, is it possible to stop scripts like this or can we enforce mailman to use exim all the time to send messages and stop direct-mailing?
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Jan 5, 2007
I just toke a Virtual dedicated server based on linux-vserver technology with 512Mo of ram burstable to 3 Go, to host my ipb active forum (20,000 registred members ~80 simultalinous)..
the probleme is the vds can't handle the forum due to bad memory Usage..
Look at the memstat output :
Quote:
root@xxxxxx:/etc/init.d# memstat
676k: PID 2303 (/dev/zero)
436k: PID 2308 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
11956k: PID 4215 (/SYSV00000000)
244k: PID 4234 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
34500k: PID 4280 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
252k: PID 4287 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
396k: PID 4527 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
264k: PID 4529 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
392k: PID 4558 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
264k: PID 4563 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
236k: PID 4569 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
3560k: PID 4714 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
3556k: PID 4791 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3476k: PID 4792 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3588k: PID 4793 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3468k: PID 4794 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3564k: PID 4795 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3620k: PID 4796 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3472k: PID 4797 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
3468k: PID 4819 (/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so)
460k: PID 5064 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
248k: PID 5087 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
248k: PID 5090 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
8532k: PID 6351 (/SYSV00000000)
320k: PID 7933 (/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-15.so)
307124k: PID 7969 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
240k: PID 7970 (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)
980k: PID 12506 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
752k: PID 13316 (/lib/tls/libnss_nis-2.3.2.so)
664k: PID 17042 (/dev/zero)
404k: PID 17195 (/lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so)
3328k: PID 24943 (/SYSV00000000)
12248k: PID 25310 (/SYSV00000000)
11128k: PID 25311 (/SYSV00000000)
11772k: PID 25312 (/SYSV00000000)
11072k: PID 25313 (/SYSV00000000)
12028k: PID 25314 (/SYSV00000000)
12028k: PID 25316 (/SYSV00000000)
11688k: PID 25317 (/SYSV00000000)
12340k: PID 25318 (/SYSV00000000)
11224k: PID 25319 (/SYSV00000000)
11796k: PID 25320 (/SYSV00000000)
11548k: PID 25322 (/SYSV00000000)
12012k: PID 25323 (/SYSV00000000)
11736k: PID 25324 (/SYSV00000000)
11440k: PID 25325 (/SYSV00000000)
11540k: PID 25326 (/SYSV00000000)
9344k: PID 25327 (/SYSV00000000)
11164k: PID 25328 (/SYSV00000000)
12080k: PID 25329 (/SYSV00000000)
10136k: PID 25330 (/SYSV00000000)
12084k: PID 25331 (/SYSV00000000)
396k: PID 32054 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32055 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32073 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32074 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32075 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32076 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
428k: PID 32077 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
396k: PID 32087 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
268k: PID 32090 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
396k: PID 32140 (/usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2)
264k: PID 32142 (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
724k: /SYSV00000000 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 25313 25314 25316 ...
1280k: /dev/zero 17042
1280k: /dev/zero 17042
1280k: /dev/zero 2303
1280k: /dev/zero 2303
68k: /usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemond.mysql 32055 32073 32074 32075...
612k: /bin/bash 7933 17195
64k: /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.2.0.10 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 2531...
1644k: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 7933 7970 17195
1124k: /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8.4 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 25313 ...
12k: /lib/libcap.so.1.10 2303 13316 17042
8k: /lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 25313 253...
8k: /usr/bin/logger 7970
248k: /lib/libncurses.so.5.4 7933 17195
20k: /lib/libnss_db-2.2.so 2303 4215 4234 4527 4558 4569 6351 13316 170...
32k: /lib/libpam.so.0.76 2303 4215 5064 5090 6351 13316 17042 24943 253...
28k: /lib/libwrap.so.0.7.6 2303 4215 4287 5064 6351 7969 13316 17042 24...
12k: /lib/security/pam_env.so 2303 17042
12k: /lib/security/pam_limits.so 2303 17042
8k: /lib/security/pam_mail.so 2303 17042
4k: /lib/security/pam_motd.so 2303 17042
8k: /lib/security/pam_nologin.so 2303 17042
44k: /lib/security/pam_unix.so 2303 17042
12k: /sbin/portmap 4287
28k: /sbin/syslogd 4234
408k: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.11.1.16 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 25...
80k: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 2...
136k: /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 2531...
416k: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25312 25313 25...
1008k: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 2303 2308 4215 4280 4714 479...
196k: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.7 4215 4714 4791 4792 4793 4794 4...
12k: /usr/lib/perl/5.8.4/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so 4215 6351 24943 25310 25311 25...
68k: /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2 2303 2308 4215 5064 6351 7969 13316 17042 2...
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About my site:
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I'm happy to provide any other information, but what I am looking for is suggestions on:
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2) What hosting company's would you suggest I look into.
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Will that be enough do you think? More, less? I would like to stay within 50-100 dollars. since I am mainly running this for recreation and not looking to make a profit.
I have never hosted a website or such before, but after reading here and doing research I do not really want a shared server.
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After several stressful hours of reading these forums I have finally decided to post my own question. I have lurked and read here for months and picked my own reseller hosting after reading up on here.
I have a client with a problem with her SMF forum...
She set it up 6 months ago and needs to upgrade her hosting. Her current host is Ausweb and she has been suspended for abuse.
The scenario I need help with is SMF forum v.1.1.5
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She has been suspended 3 times last month, charged apparently for an upgrade and has forked out almost $1500 for 12 months from April, which I calculate to be $125 per month for 12 months... which should be a dedicated server!
Does she need a dedicated server?
Would a VPS suffice?
If she does.. who is economical as at this point it is non profit site although we are looking at changing that, through advertising.
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What kind of webhost will I need for phpBB forum?
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A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
A SQL database system, one of:
FireBird 2.0 or above
MySQL 3.23 or above
MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
Oracle
PostgreSQL 7.x or above
SQLite
PHP 4.3.3 or above with support for the database you intend to use. The optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
zlib Compression support
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XML support
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Of course free hosts are preferred, but nothing too expensive will do fine aswell. n_n
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Just see if it's closed for you or not.
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running a vb forum around 400 members online and 300 guests(they don't have access to forum)..
here's my top list
top - 20:27:49 up 2:48, 1 user, load average: 7.41, 3.93, 2.00
Tasks: 164 total, 7 running, 157 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 79.0%us, 3.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 16.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2059456k total, 1379400k used, 680056k free, 74100k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 578940k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25037 apache 15 0 43488 20m 5168 S 25 1.0 0:05.08 httpd
25021 apache 15 0 45168 21m 4840 S 20 1.1 0:06.22 httpd
25033 apache 15 0 44072 20m 4900 S 15 1.0 0:04.18 httpd
25281 apache 16 0 41388 18m 4792 S 13 0.9 0:03.09 httpd
924 apache 15 0 47036 24m 6208 S 11 1.2 2:04.58 httpd
25000 apache 15 0 43036 19m 4884 S 9 1.0 0:04.27 httpd
25019 apache 15 0 44432 20m 4880 S 9 1.0 0:03.58 httpd
25793 apache 16 0 40228 16m 4656 R 8 0.8 0:00.25 httpd
24398 apache 16 0 42896 19m 5232 R 8 1.0 0:04.65 httpd
2516 apache 15 0 43868 21m 5412 S 7 1.0 1:42.88 httpd
916 apache 15 0 46212 23m 6268 S 7 1.2 2:01.07 httpd
25032 apache 15 0 42544 19m 4828 S 7 0.9 0:02.72 httpd
2674 mysql 15 0 180m 45m 4860 S 7 2.3 5:31.09 mysqld
23073 apache 15 0 44728 21m 5216 S 6 1.1 0:13.05 httpd
23062 apache 15 0 42992 19m 4916 S 5 1.0 0:16.05 httpd
25007 apache 15 0 47484 24m 5100 S 2 1.2 0:03.22 httpd
15795 apache 15 0 46944 23m 5544 S 1 1.2 0:47.47 httpd
16339 apache 15 0 46212 22m 5076 R 1 1.1 0:47.83 httpd
25038 apache 15 0 42336 18m 4788 S 1 0.9 0:02.92 httpd
16339 apache 15 0 46208 22m 5076 S 3 1.1 0:47.79 httpd
25020 apache 15 0 44860 21m 4864 S 2 1.1 0:04.71 httpd
25079 apache 17 0 45828 22m 4860 R 2 1.1 0:04.15 httpd
16361 apache 15 0 44872 21m 5392 S 1 1.1 0:50.04 httpd
22666 apache 15 0 43748 20m 5272 S 1 1.0 0:14.98 httpd
22671 apache 15 0 43320 20m 5244 S 1 1.0 0:16.42 httpd
25032 apache 15 0 42544 19m 4824 S 1 0.9 0:02.51 httpd
916 apache 15 0 46212 23m 6268 S 0 1.2 2:00.86 httpd
24247 root 15 0 2164 1104 816 R 0 0.1 0:00.64 top
25009 apache 15 0 43028 19m 4828 S 0 1.0 0:03.32 httpd
25034 apache 15 0 43492 20m 5128 S 0 1.0 0:02.63 httpd
25268 apache 15 0 40892 17m 4676 S 0 0.9 0:00.49 httpd
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