crabpaws Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Like almost all admins here, I'm concerned with floods of bots, spiders, etc. visiting my site. In addition, I am on IPS Hosting, which charges according to user load measured over a 48-hour period. I have had my monthly hosting charges kicked into a higher (very expensive) bracket because of a single huge spike due to bots, spiders, etc. I have been directed by IPS Support to monitor IPB's Users Online list for suspicious activity. This is made particularly difficult because the Users Online list cannot be sorted by IP address. (Duplicates and clusters of IP addresses are highly suspicious.) IPB's Users Online list can be sorted by Member Name (exclusive of IP) and Last Click -- parameters I've never found useful -- but not by IP address, although IP address is displayed to admins. I strongly suggest the ability to sort IPB's Users Online list BY IP ADDRESS be included in the tool to enhance its usefulness. (The parens around the displayed IP addresses are unnecessary visual clutter and could be eliminated.) Given that so many admins have problems with bots, spiders, etc. and for years have been directed to IPB's Users Online list, I wonder why this hasn't been done sooner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 This would make bot identification so much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Any possibility this might be adopted in the next version tweak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 No interest? I'm sure this is of concern to many admins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopar1973Man Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Would be nice to identify spiders and bots walking the site instead of the standard "guest" list and having to do IP lookups for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netherlord Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 i support this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Lindy Posted February 29, 2016 Management Share Posted February 29, 2016 This isn't a woefully efficient feature to include in the core, so it's not likely you will see this anytime soon. It existed in IPB3 and caused a lot of performance drama. For those that require this, there is an existing marketplace plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 That plug-in is not what I meant. What I'm looking for is an easier way to spot suspicious aggregations of IP addresses or IPs with multiple sessions open. Many of these would not identify themselves as USER-AGENTS. They are spam bots or some other nefarious waste of server load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 The user list can be sorted by Member Name (and Last Click -- sort of useless) and filtered by Registered vs Guests, why not enable sorting by IP address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopar1973Man Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 On 2/29/2016 at 11:16 PM, Lindy said: This isn't a woefully efficient feature to include in the core, so it's not likely you will see this anytime soon. It existed in IPB3 and caused a lot of performance drama. For those that require this, there is an existing marketplace plugin By chance what was so bad about? Explain a bit about if you can Lindy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 Excellent question, Mopar1973Man. Would sorting by IP address utilize more server power than sorting by Member Name (or Last Click -- whaa???)? I was thinking of a way to facilitate Blocking Bad Bots via htaccess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopar1973Man Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I'm thinking that it has to do with making a database of all the bot IP's and having to call the database to idientify them all adding more database calls... But that's a guess from a logical thinking stand point. But Lindy would know more about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said: I'm thinking that it has to do with making a database of all the bot IP's and having to call the database to idientify them all adding more database calls... But that's a guess from a logical thinking stand point. But Lindy would know more about it. That would be very nice indeed. But a simple sort by IP added to Users Online would be a significant improvement that would take a minimum of IPS investment and processing power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabpaws Posted June 17, 2017 Author Share Posted June 17, 2017 Sorry to see Sort by IP address is still not in the sort options for Users Online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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