HostXNow Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hi, What is the most popular csf auto ip unblocking module that works with cPanel and WHMCS? Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm personally only aware of the CSF Gold one, although from a sysadmin & security perspective would never dream of allowing customers to unblock ther own IP's 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 if you own a server and have WHMphp, then this comes part of their package, but as Penguin says, it is a risk to give customers this feature and allow them to block their own IPS. and example is if you have a reseller and one of their clients start to abuse the server resources, so you suspend this account and inform your reseller, so you reseller contacts their client and this gets sorted so you unsuspend, then this account does the same this so this time you block that users IP. you tell you reseller this and the reason behind this, but after that the resller has words with his client and then he unblocks his client Ip, who again starts abusing the server resources. the idea to block an IP is so that you as system admin protect your server so why should you block for another user to unblock this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Another scenario is someone purchasing a hosting account using fraudulent details and then trying to brute force your server as they can keep unblocking their IP. Just imagine where that can end up if you're not watching things.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 this is one of my main reasons why i never renewed my WHMphp licence as they added this as a feature for all clients to use and their was no way that as admin you could disable this feature they added, so without your permission and acceptance this feature was added and allowed all used access to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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