Sentinel PROBLEM !!!

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:49 pm

I also have one user who gets the "You are using an invalid IP...". There may be more but if so no one else has emailed me to say so. I have applied the changes suggested here http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/article-2154--0-0.html but it did not fix the problem. This is on the actual site not a local test site. The user has tried restarting the modem/router to accuire a new IP address. He can get on the site at another location. Oh, and he claims he doesn't know what IP masking software is. He was able to access the site 3 weeks ago but not anymore. No changes other were made to the site until I applied the ones suggested in the above link (after the problem occured)

I am not willing to allow users to access the site if I cannot track them by IP address but neither do I want a lot of users to be unable to access it legitimately without knowing I have done all I can to help.

Uh, I should say that I am not running the latest versions. Currently running RN76 2.02 patched to 3.1(I think) and NSN 2.4.2pl3. Do you think updating either of these would help?

New Member Joined: May 14, 2006 Posts: 2

well i could'nt enter my website but i comment out those lines in sentinel

open file
includes/nukesentinel.php

from this:

// Invalid ip check
if($nsnst_const['remote_ip']=="none") { die(_AB_INVALIDIP); }

so that it looks like

// Invalid ip check
//if($nsnst_const['remote_ip']=="none") { die(_AB_INVALIDIP); }

notice the ------------->> // in the second line

it works, because i have ftp acess to change this, but if the webmaster doesn't know this happens, he may be blocking people from getting into the website. Like i said, some weird ip changes...

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

What real1 posted is what we have posted here in the forums before. And I suggested that in my first reply to this thread, although I might not have been explicit enough.

Client Joined: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 977

Raven wrote:

What real1 posted is what we have posted here in the forums before. And I suggested that in my first reply to this thread, although I might not have been explicit enough.

We understood how to fix it but this leaves the site vunerable, does it not? I want to be able to fix this and still have the site secure. I like to find the root problem...

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:24 pm

Then you have to goto the source site and find out why they are using an invalid IP. Or, look in the NukeSentinel(tm) IP2C table and if the IP is in there, verify that it is no longer reserved with IANA.

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:20 am

Raven, after some convoluted posts by the victim, which I am sure you can understand Wink

, I found out that is IP was a series that was blocked because it was reserved but now released... so I unblocked that string and all is good. Is there anyway to find out and keep up on the ones that are made active? Thanks for everyones help!

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:49 am

Staying up to date on NukeSentinel)tm) releases. As we discover these changes we release IP2COUNTRY changes. That previous post on page 1 deleted them from the reserveed ranges and that was all we knew about at that time. If you do a WHOIS on the IP and find out that it is no longer reserved, then let us know and we will correct it in NukeSentinel(tm). There is no automated way to know these things that I am aware of.

New Member Joined: Oct 01, 2008 Posts: 16

Was a fix to this problem ever found?

registered · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:14 pm

You just need to wait for IP2Country updates

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:59 pm

The updates are in the RavenNuke(tm) v2.30.01 release if you want to add them from there.