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#32769 ip-lookup.net is not working

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Latest post by on Friday, 01 May 2020 17:17 CDT

Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:05 CDT

credenceweb
I have received some alert emails from my site, generated by Admin Tools.

The emails link to ip-lookup.net as a reference - but it appears that site may have been hacked.

When browsing over to it, I see:
Access denied for user: 'monsitep_stats@%' to database 'monsitep_stats' in file /home/monsitep/_pro/_internet/ip-lookup.net/inc/functions.inc.php in line 224.

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 02:34 CDT

nicholas
The IP lookup URL to be used is user-configurable in the Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF page, Logging and Reporting tab. A default site has been provided for your convenience. However, do note that this is a third party that is not affiliated in any way by Akeeba Ltd and we cannot provide support for it. If you are not satisfied with the default setting you are welcome to change it yourself. For example, you can use IP Tracker by setting the IP Lookup Service
to https:// in the first field and /www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip={ip} in the second field.

Regarding your assessment about IP Lookup being hacked, I do not agree. It looks like it is experiencing problems with is database server. These problems have been intermittent throughout last week and have happened in the past. Give it some time, it will fix itself. It works perfectly fine at the time of my reply.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 07:31 CDT

credenceweb
Thanks for looking at this, and explaining how to change it in the configuration.

Somehow, the setting on this site is ip-lookup.net (which is not functioning), and the site which you checked is ip-lookup.org (which works fine)

Maybe at some time in the past, they were on in the same. I will change my settings to be ip-lookup.org I am not sure what the default settings are, but they may need changing on your end.



Wednesday, 01 April 2020 09:45 CDT

nicholas
The default that's shipped with Admin Tools is ip-lookup.net. This site is working fine every time I checked, most recently about 45 seconds before replying to you. Therefore no change is necessary for the default values on our part.

I proposed changing that option to ip-lookup.org which is a completely different site if for whatever reason the default doesn't work for you. You could use a completely different site; it's up to you. That's why this is an option, not a hardcoded value.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 01 May 2020 17:17 CDT

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