On 29 May 2019 at 11:11p, ernie pondered and said...
On 29 May 2019, stizzed said the following...
Is there anything special that has to be done to get Mystic to identi the country the caller is calling from? My logs show that each and every caller is from 'Unknown'. This is fine if the Goobermint is watching, but I would like to know for the log analyzer I'm writing.
There's instructions in <mysticpath>/data/iplocation.txt
Having said that, I've followed the instructions and I haven't seen a change in the logs. :(
Well yep I'd make sure you follow those notes first and foremost and ensure
the file layout remains intact by using an editor like notepad++ or similar
[snip]
; MASTER COUNTRY LOOKUP/BLOCK LIST
;
; To block a country, change the first letter from "A" to "B" to block all
; connections from that country.
;
; Be very careful not to mangle the layout of this file. Each line must
; have either an A or B on the line, followed by 2 letter ISO 3166-1 country
; code followed by the country name. They must all be separated by two spaces ;
; IP Database must be named "iplocation.bin" in the DATA directory and is a
; free "IP2Location LITE IP-COUNTRY Database" in the "IPV6 BIN" format, which
; can be downloaded from:
;
; lite.ip2location.com/database/ip-country
;
; Download the proper ZIP and store the ".bin" file contained in the archive
; in your DATA directorty as "iplocation.bin". An example of the proper
; database filename to download is "IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB1.IPV6.BIN.ZIP"
[snip]
you also want to ensure you have the .bin file in the data directory also.
There is an older copy of this file at
http://mysticbbs.com/downloads/iplocation.zip if you want another place to
find it. The .ZIP also contains a copy of an untouched iplocation.txt file.
Close and restart your servers and make sure you actually turn it on. For example in the the BinkP server config
Port ³ 24554
Max Allowed ³ 5
Auto IP Ban ³ 0 in 0 secs
Country Block ³ Yes
Send Blocked ³ No
Time Out ³ 30
Or in the Telnet server
Port ³ 23
Max Allowed ³ 8
Auto IP Ban ³ 4 in 120 secs
Country Block ³ Yes
Send Blocked ³ No
Dupe IP Limit ³ 0
MIS server logs will show this kind of detail
+ 2019.05.30 15:54:41 TELNET > Connect on slot 1/8 (24.50.212.160)
+ 2019.05.30 15:54:41 TELNET 1-HostName Unknown
+ 2019.05.30 15:54:41 TELNET 1-Country Puerto Rico (PR)
+ 2019.05.30 15:54:41 TELNET 1-Creating terminal process
Best, Paul
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