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Public area => The Pub => Features => Topic started by: eolith on October 12th, 2011, 07:35 AM

Title: IP based logging per thread
Post by: eolith on October 12th, 2011, 07:35 AM

I run a small SMF forum (52 users), and have been watching Wedge for a while. I just had an issue where someone did something nefarious and it would have been very helpful if I could have tracked who accessed a particular thread during a specific time period.

Is there a feature like this under consideration? I've not found anything about it through search.

The same person then registered through the proxy hidemyass.com.

Is there anything planned for blocking proxies of this nature?

Thanks, hope to see this out soon!

Title: Re: IP based logging per thread
Post by: live627 on October 12th, 2011, 07:42 AM

This might not happen, but never say never, especially when it comes to the US government, eh?

Say the Feds pass their bill allowing ISPs to block certain websites. Without proxies, then, how would we be able to access them?

Just a thought.

Title: Re: IP based logging per thread
Post by: Arantor on October 12th, 2011, 11:25 AM

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Is there a feature like this under consideration? I've not found anything about it through search.

No, there isn't. Maybe it might be a nice plugin, but the amount of space it'd take up in the DB is likely pretty huge (since we support IPv6 which makes addresses quite large)

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Is there anything planned for blocking proxies of this nature?

That depends, how much do you want to exclude any and all mobile phones, and likely a lot of universities? There's nothing specific about hidemyass.com (other than a very large collection of disjointed IP addresses, which is very hard to pin down since it changes, for the obvious reason)

If you want to exclude mobile phones and most universities (and a fair number of companies), then yes, that can be done.