Crazyness and referrer blocking :)

New Member Joined: May 02, 2006 Posts: 4

Just want to start off by saying I love this product and I and grateful for your supporting the comunity.

Sentinel 2.5.1

RavenNuke Distro

Here is my problem when I go into the httpreffers I get banned from my site saying that I am trying to bypass the filter settings.

Also I am getting a lot of people banned for Referer reasons, what exactly does that mean?

registered · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:12 pm

It could be the firewall you are using?

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:12 pm

Well I am using a ISA 2k3 here and at my home I am using a PIX 515e and it happens at both location. With one being software and the other hardware kinda of seems funny. Or do you mean the firewall the webhost is behind? The host is a colo server I have in TX and this only happens on one of my sites and I have done a fresh reinstall of raven nuke.

registered · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:25 am

You cannot use HTTP Referrers with NukeSentinel 2.4.2 pl6+ (I have to guess on the pl# a bit) due to tightening down on having "http" in the query string. It was tightened down to help stop a wave of hack attempts against the forums a few months ago.

Someone may have posted a hack here regarding that, but I cannot find it at the moment.

Personally, I just check every once in a while in my cpanel's tools for web statistics (which includes a referrers list) for this functionality.

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:10 am

Thanks a million for the heads up! I will start using my own web statistics as you are to get around this.

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:16 am

As an aside, you should be able to access the http referer section in nuke admin without any problems.
It is only if you then click on any of the links presented that should cause the banning problem for the reasons Montego outlined.
The site I tested this on is not using the very latest versions but it would be nice if you could confirm my theory.