| Re: Security - IP Logging [message #35115 is a reply to message #35105] |
Fri, 08 December 2006 16:44   |
Ernesto
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Registered: August 2005
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I've just checked on this forum and all new registrations (regardless of post count) have an IP address that can be seen via the admin control panel. Now in terms of violators, in order to break forum rules people generally need to "post". Which means that tracking is necessary for message posting not lurking on the forum. I'd love to hear the danger or issues with allowing people to lurk Smile. As far as enforcing bans, this is why registration IP is logged and the control panel I had mentioned allows you to see what IPs login X had used up until now (based on posts) and what is their registered IP address.
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As I said: Many people use a forum as a supplement to their "real service" may it be a regular webpage containing "blogs" or may it be a game server, a file storage, a MUD, you name it - Being able to track users across all services would be, in many cases, important. If I had the forums also log a user upon login, I would have a wider range of possible IP numbers, to help me cleanse the other services from the infractor as well, or, when a user actually violates the forum and the forum rules, I can ban ALL his known IPs (if I WANT to) instead of just the one, two or three he used on his new little user he created just to post some poop-pictures (or whatnot). It could also help me to see if a user have multiple board aliases/logins (On many sites this is forbidden) where I could get better comparation results in the "Other users who use this IP" fields.
I can naturally toss this this in myself, if I am the only one that feels a more extensive IP logging is necessary, but I bet my two-winged shorts alot more people would ask for a feature like this, especially considering Invision Power Board, phpBB, vBulletin, IGNBoards and zeroforum has this functionality, I can imagine it has been asked for.
Yet again, don't get me wrong, I do not in any way want FUDforum to be a copy of anything else, I use FUDforum because I think it's the fastest, best and has the fastest support, but I can still at least try to argue my case, no? 
Ginnunga Gaming
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