I haven’t found a setting for this, so I’m assuming it doesn’t exist (pardon me, if my assumption is incorrect).
Sitepoint is in the process of removing 1700 blocks on IPs because a good majority of them haven’t had a recent match and a few of these are blocking users who seem legit (as they email our support team asking why they can’t register/login).
So I’d like to see a setting that would auto-purge blocked entries if they fail to have a match in the last n months.
Mockup:
Default would be 6 months (or longer) – I feel that may be a safe default.
I’m curious, does a Registration attempt update the last_match ?
From past experience I’d say most problem IPs* fall out of use within 3 months, a large several persist for around 6 months, and only an extremely rare few for a year or more.
* I’m talking sub-net blocks, not individual IPs
6 months sounds like a good compromise IMHO, not like they can’t be added again if they return.
What is the criteria, as we have 1700 IPs many do not have a match in the past 6 months, some don’t have a match as far as September of last year. Also, several do not have any matches (they have a 0 count)
So as to prevent any confusion, those would likely be my doing.
When we were working out how to do things I manually entered a few IPs for accounts that were 99999 Suspended
But they would all be fairly old by now - early Autumn-ish - and should be OK to prune out.
Okay, we set it to a shorter time frame, will look at the results over the next few days to see if it is operating as expected. Go ahead and close. I’ll open a bug if it isn’t working as expected.
