Fake IP Problem

  • Resolved DarkSafka

    (@darksafka)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I’m having trouble with perfectly normal comments being marked as spam and the reason is “Fake IP”. Is there any way to tell Anti Spam Bee, that Fake IPs are OK in my book and should not be marked as spam?

    The answer suggested in here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/antispam-bee-block-my-ip?replies=5 does not answer my question. I tried it and it didn’t help. My php version is 5.5.9 if that has any meaning in the matter.

    Anti spam bee does this “Fake IP” thing for some commenters only, not all. But it does it every time the same commenter posts a new comment. And their IP addresses seem fine to me.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/antispam-bee/

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  • Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Could you provide us with a problematic IP address, so we can check it?

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    You can easily deactivate this check in the settings if you want to enable commenting for these users.

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Thread Starter DarkSafka

    (@darksafka)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the reply and sorry for the wait!

    I have already unchecked the “Validate the ip address of commenters” option and saved changes. Hopefully this solved the issue, at least I haven’t had any “Fake IP spam” anymore (then again there haven’t been any new comments from those IPs marked as fake).

    Here’s two IP addresses that have been marked as “fake”:

    192.228.170.82

    83.150.82.74

    The comments were completely fine though.

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    The fake IP detection is this: get the host by IP and then get the IP by this host and after that compare the two values. Here is what I get from the last IP:

    83.150.82.74 -> srv6.macpalvelin.com
    srv6.macpalvelin.com -> 83.145.28.241

    83.150.82.74 != 83.145.28.241

    So that’s at least the problem …

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Same for the first IP:
    192.228.170.82 -> broadband.time.net.my
    broadband.time.net.my -> 203.121.64.39, 203.121.64.206

    neoword

    (@neoword)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    It looks like “Fake IP” gets triggered for IPv6 addresses from Deutsche Telekom. Though the IP can be resolved to a hostname and vice versa.

    Plugin Contributor Pascal Birchler

    (@swissspidy)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Improved IPv6 support is on our roadmap, though the “Fake IP” check may still cause a few false positives every now and then.

    We’re looking into it 🙂

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