I'm currently part of an online game trading forum, and they was wondering if there is a well maintained blacklist to help block IPs of proxies and VPNs to help keep the number of scammers down from the site. Any ideas on what could be done?
I'm currently part of an online game trading forum, and they was wondering if there is a well maintained blacklist to help block IPs of proxies and VPNs to help keep the number of scammers down from the site. Any ideas on what could be done?
first thoughts
I don't know of any blacklists for that sorta stuff ('cause I've never looked), but first thing that comes to my mind (if all else fails) is like many IRCd's do... have a small script/program that attempts to connect to the client IP on several known proxy/VPN ports, if any answer like a proxy/VPN server, block their connection and add it to your own internal blacklist or such.
If you use a method like that, I'd probably do a timestamp w/ each blacklist entry so the entries can "time out" after so many days or something.
-- Jason Rush ( aksnowman@hack3r.com )