UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions IP Display Upgrade [easy hack][finished]

Difficulty = NONE
Rating = Gets the job done!
what it does =
The display IP page does only that Displays IP, this hack as simple as it may be now displays IP and HOST!
files to be modified = postings.cgi

find:
if ($ThisIP eq "") {
&StandardHTML("Sorry, we could not find a record for that post. Perhaps someone recently deleted it.");
exit;
}

and right after it add:
$ThisDomain = gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($ThisIP), AF_INET);


then find:
$ThisIP

and replace it with:
$ThisIP $ThisDomain


You should now get the hostname diplayed as well as the IP address. This has been tested fine on version's UPTO 5.43b not 5.44.

enjoy, it

Digital Paul Out~

Paul-

Thanks for the hack Simple yet effective and a nice admin feature to have.

BTW, works fine on 5.44 as well.

-Chris

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Chris Schreiber
[email protected]
Fast 4GL Systems, Inc.
http://www.fast4gl.com/
UBB: http://www.progresstalk.com/

thanks dude,
i cant be bothered to upgrade to the latest version, even with beyond compare, i have just gotten youst to the cgi layout of the script and bits are all over the place! in the new one!

Glad it works for all!

my saying is if it aint broke dont fix it!

Nice hack

Just a thought

I like it, make it do more!

quick easy and an improvement
Thanx!

Nice hack indeed!

what else would you like to see??

i made this quite a while ago, but never thought of making it display more???

ideas anyone?



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Great Job I love it

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Nice Hack DU.

Just thought I'd do a little "Spring Cleaning" on this hack:


find:

And replace it with:

This'll show who's IP and Hostname you're looking at.

Then, find:

And directly under it add:

Then, find:

and delete that..

It'll just show the IP and Hostname of that person.

It looks a lot better for me this way.

Tidier!

Just a thought

you have it, looks much better, i was admittidly very lazy on this hack, lol!

very tidy!

Okay. I've got a little problem with this hack. For some of my members it will only log an IP, and not the hostname.

Why is that?

I mean, it will work fine for some and log both IP and hostname, but only the IP on the other members. Is this a problem with the hack or is it a problem with the persons ISP? Or is it even a problem at all?


Later

Oddkick-

This is normal, not all IP address can be resolved to a hostname.

HTH.

-Chris

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Chris Schreiber
[email protected]
Fast 4GL Systems, Inc.
UBB: http://www.progresstalk.com/

Heh... sorry. I'm sorta new to this.

How does an IP get resolved to a hostname??

It actually happens the other way round (Usually). Anyway, it's the client's browser which sends (or doesn't) the two pieces of information. Many machines don't have a hostname, or will give their IP.

Just a thought

Does anyone have an example of this hack in action because I can't seem to get it to show up on mine (5.39c)

Okay, Did this hack Word for word, letter for letter I cannot get it to work. I am using it on 5.44 also. As a matter of fact, all the postings on my test page are gone also.
I am going to try it on 5.43 and see if it does the same. Lisa

HELP!!

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In reality our fellow citizen's have not sunk so low as we feared, because
they had never risen so high as we believed. (Freud)

I just installed this hack flawlessly in version 5.45c. Since I can get real snoopy about the troublemakers on my Board and their alter egos, I use this feature a lot... this hack was a welcome addition, as it gives me even more info than before. Many thanks to Digital Paul for this, installing it made me feel like I actually knew what I was doing (after my last four failed hack attempts). So I had a little "quirk" with the fact that, when both of the above modifications are added, you lose the Post info (it's more of a reminder than annoying to me), and the Hostname displays both after the IP in the first row, but also in its own second row. Below is what I have modified and added to my board to give you the name of the Member whose IP you requested at the the top of the page, the IP alone (without the Host Name after it), the Host Name in a separate row below the IP, and the Post info (with info on how to remove the post info if you wish). It also adds a colon after the IP and Host "row titles", cuz I'm anal like that.

Either way, you can use your particular preference to flawlessly apply this hack using the code below.


In postings.cgi:

(This will add the command that determines the host name, this is a necessary step)

Find:

And on a new line directly underneath the last }, add:

(This step adds the User Name associated with the requested IP and Hostname to the top of the IP page)

Now Find:

And replace it with:

(This will add a colon after "IP Number", this step is not necessary if you don't care, I did though )

Find:

And replace it with:

(If you added the colon as listed above, this will add a second row beneath the IP number display to show the Hostname WITH a colon)
(If you didn't add the colon as listed above, skip this step and use the next one)

Find:

And on a new line, directly underneath it, add:

(If you didn't add the colon as listed above, this will add a second row beneath the IP number display to show the Hostname WITHOUT a colon)
(If you DID add the colon as listed two steps above, ignore this step and use the step directly above this one, if you've already done the step above, skip this step)

Find:

And on a new line, directly underneath it, add:

(If you want to remove the body of the post underneath the IP and Hostname, follow this next step - if not, skip to the next step)

Find:

And delete it.

There isn't a next step. You're finished. Backup your original postings.cgi and upload the file to your UBB cgi folder in ASCII format. Make sure you set the CHMOD to 755, and you're all set. You don't need to update threads or anything else, just click on the IP link, authenticate yourself and enjoy!

Again, thanks to Digital Paul for this cool little hack. This should be added to the "Additions" database.

I get a "Staff Use Only" beside the IP icon...
how to remove that text?

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Squall14

I don't think you got that from using the code above, I think that's part of a Custom Layout hack or something. 'Course, who am I to guess, I know jack [censored] compared to most folks here.