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Title: Block No IP Address? 0.0.0.0
Post by: clindner on March 31, 2008, 10:53:50 AM

Hi, I have someone coming to my site that shows in the log as being from 0.0.0.0.

Is there a way to block that address, or require a real address? I am not able to add 0.0.0.0 as an IP trigger in the Ban Triggers.

Title: Re: Block No IP Address? 0.0.0.0
Post by: Bulakbol on April 02, 2008, 11:11:11 PM

I don't think ip 0.0.0.0 is a valid IP. I could be wrong though.

Title: Re: Block No IP Address? 0.0.0.0
Post by: butchs on April 03, 2008, 06:26:34 AM

If you are getting something like:
"User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (000000000; 0; 000 000 00 0 0000000; 00) 000000000000000000 0000000 0000 000000 00000000000 0000000000000"

That is a firewall software program blocking the user agent. ???

Title: Re: Block No IP Address? 0.0.0.0
Post by: Smith6612 on April 03, 2008, 06:31:23 AM

0.0.0.0 is a null IP. There should be no reason that an IP like this would show up unless there is a problem.

Title: Re: Block No IP Address? 0.0.0.0
Post by: Rumbaar on April 06, 2008, 07:23:08 AM

I think 0.0.0.0 is returned when SMF isn't able to get a valid IP from the client. Now how and why this happens I'm not sure.

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