sentinel ip2country issue ?

Hangin' Around Joined: May 28, 2006 Posts: 40

i seem to have a issue with my sentinel 2.5.0

one of my users informed me today that he is getting a message from sentinel when he tries to visit my site. it tells him his ip is invalid.

i did a little research on this and im guessing this is a new but already known issue with NS 2.5.0

so im guessing i need to update my ip2country.

i went on ns.com and look at the 2 different d/l's they have for ip2c

but im not sure witch one i should use.

the sql one

or

the diff one

or is this issue even with the ip2c ?

i fiqured i would wait to hear from someone who's better than me what inside the sentinel is causing it. before i go changing up ns files.

thanx

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Just to clarify, did you load IP2 country when you installed NukeSentinel? If not, you should be able to use the installation routine to do that.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:22 am

it appears that the ip2c table does not have the data installed in it. sentinel tells me to click on "import data" to install the data

after doing so i get 2 options

Import to Blocked Ranges
Import to IP2Country

not knowing wth im doing i just imported both. i clicked on the "U.S.A" country as i guess you pick where you ( you meaning webmaster) are from.

but right after i picked my country i guess it did something automaticly as it told me everything was installed ok.

however i still could not click on the "ip2country " tab in the sentinel admin panel.

so i went back and click on "import" in the "import data" section for
Import to Blocked Ranges
Import to IP2Country

and i got banned from my own site lol. my ip was even in the protected ranges and it still banned me.

so i had to go into my db my dig myself out.

i droped the sentinel ip2c table
blocked ip table
blocked ranges table

i re installed them and they are as of now at default. nothing in them.

what is the correct way to install this ip2c ?

i guess i tried the install script way but it didnt work. or did i just do it wrong ?

registered · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:28 am

Just click on Import to IP2Country and import ALL the countries. NS 2.5 requires them all for some reason.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:35 am

so to clarify i have to click on every country in the list ? lol

better grab a beer and sit back and do some clicking for awhile lol

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:37 am

I know. I wish you could select them all and import, but you can't. It goes sort of fast though. 5 minutes maybe?

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:47 am

lol ok im good to go now. im adding them all in. thanksto you and kguske for the info on this

ill give ya $1 to click all these in for me lmao j/k but thanks Smile

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:50 am

Cool. Let us know how it goes and if it solves the problem.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:45 pm

Yes please keep us up to date.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:50 pm

the user that was having the issue of bein not able to get on my site appears to be resolved by this fix/update.

just wanted to come back and post to let you know it appears to be fine now.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:55 pm

Great. Thanks for posting back.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:50 pm

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
I know the developers of looking at this problem but at least you are working again now which is great news!

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:30 pm

I haven't heard anything since reporting the issue - maybe it's time to take a closer look at the code.