Blocked IP Location not showing anymore

codeling / bfstop

Brute Force Stop Plugin (for Joomla!)

https://bfstop.bfroehler.info

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Blocked IP Location not showing anymore #169

Open pnuts007 opened 6 years ago

pnuts007 commented 6 years ago

When clicking on blocked IP address normally the location coordinates were shown. Now it only shows a single line :

'No information available for that IP address'. No changes were made, newest version installed.

codeling commented 6 years ago

bfstop is using the freegeoip service (https://freegeoip.net/). Apparently this service has now been shut down. I will try to find other similar services I can use and see if I can include a lookup to them in the next version!

codeling commented 6 years ago

Apparently the API has been discontinued as of July 1st (https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip/). As a future-proof solution to this, I will implement a few lookup services:

the direct replacement of freegeoip.net -> ipstack.com (though this will require each bfstop user to acquire his own api key)
other still free services such as https://geoip.nekudo.com, https://www.geoplugin.com/ (see https://ahmadawais.com/best-api-geolocating-an-ip-address/)
maybe a local geo-ip database solution using e.g. the files from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

pnuts007 commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your prompt response. Looking forward to your updates

codeling commented 3 weeks ago

IP address lookup is for now disabled via https://github.com/codeling/com_bfstop/commit/e9a8ef1bce3b0ea418a4ea2ed9bba509c4e1724d.

It will be implemented in a future version