IP Blocking Discussion

[rosewill]

Anyone know of a way to get around the login attempts limit on sites that block you for 15 minds for 5 failed attempts etc? Site is using vBulletin if that helps at all...

I tried the old login to different accounts but it still counts all those failed attempts against your ip. I also tried logging in with an account to see if that would reset the attempts but it does not. I don't want to have to have like millions of proxies, so I was wondering if anyone else had a creative solution to this problem? I think the ip attempts are stored server side in a DB so i doubt clearing cookies or anything along those lines would work...

[Jah]

Did you even think of proxies, or else it might be your account. >.>

[rosewill]

Yeah proxies are an obvious solution, but I would need like thousands of them, which is pretty hard to get. Like this is for something very large scale.

[Jah]

Is this Gaia you talkin about ? You might just want those online webbrowsing proxies

[rosewill]

Basically a lot of online avatar sites employ this type of protection. Web proxies are of no use in this case, not what im looking for. I'm looking for a non-proxy solution.

[Aleena]

https://www.torproject.org/

1) Download
2) Install
3) IP blocked from a site after 5 attempts? Click the button that says "New Identity"
4) Repeat step 3 endlessly as needed.

[rosewill]

I guess I could integrate TOR with my program, though that sounds awfully complicated and slow. I decided just to change avatar sites.

[Chad]

Actually, its not hard at all.

[rosewill]

For a cracker, Tor seems pretty slow. I mean they don't IP ban much, but when your requests take a long time to send, it really slows down the cracker.