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The NEW central antispam blacklist

Permalink May 12, 2006 @ 17:55, by Francois Planque • Category: b2evolution.net

Thanks to Ed (Head of Central Antispam) and Ryan (New Host), we now have a brand new host for our central antispam list. It's a separate host from the main site, so we might get better performance on the one or the other if not both ;)

Because it's a new server, you will need to do some small modifications to your b2evo installation if you want to take advantage of it.

Pick your easiest solution:

Solution 1

You're not in a hurry: just wait for the next 0.9.2 [Update: available now] or 1.8-alpha release and you'll be fine.

Solution 2

You care a lot about antispam, but not so much about pinging b2evo when you publish a new post.

Just go into your /conf/_advanced.php file, and at the end of the file replace this line:

$evonetsrv_host = 'b2evolution.net';

with this line:

$evonetsrv_host = 'antispam.b2evolution.net';

Solution 3

You're running version 0.9.1 and you want it all:

Go the end of your /conf/_advanced.php file, and add the following lines:

$antispamsrv_host = 'antispam.b2evolution.net';
$antispamsrv_port = 80;
$antispamsrv_uri = '/evonetsrv/xmlrpc.php';

Note the $antispamsrv prefix. It is different from the existing $evonetsrv lines.

Download this file and use it to replace your existing /b2evocore/_functions_antispam.php file. (If you have trouble with downloading the PHP file, you can get this ZIPped file instead).

CVS

Note: CVS servers are not up to date right now because SourceForge? has had them down for the whole week... stay tuned.

Update: 0.9.2 is now up to date on CVS (look for the v-0-9-1 branch).

43 comments

Comment from: Reed Loden [Visitor]
Reed LodenUhh, the SourceForge page returns it as text/html... Might want to rename it to .phps or .php.txt or something.
2006-05-12 @ 20:12
Comment from: ednong [Visitor]
ednongHi,
I think you mean with Ed the nick EdB, isn't it? ;)
The solution 1 is great – but how long? ;) I know, the CVS server and I will chose an other one.
Thanks for your work, guys

ed
2006-05-12 @ 21:21
Comment from: John [Visitor]
JohnThanks, solution 3 worked fine.
2006-05-12 @ 22:20
Comment from: Beano [Visitor]
BeanoGreat to see it back up again - I thought from the post last week that 0.9.2 would be here by now, but big thanks to the guys doing the hosting.
2006-05-13 @ 01:58
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoTried solution 3 didn't work got a text page. Please let us know when it'll work and I'll redo the changes. Thanks for all the effort on this.
2006-05-13 @ 02:49
Comment from: Robbo [Visitor]
RobboThanks to Ed and Ryan for keeping this valuable tool going...
2006-05-13 @ 03:54
Comment from: Melle [Visitor]
Mellecheers!
2006-05-13 @ 13:58
Comment from: Beano [Visitor]
BeanoVincent if it doesn't work you've done something wrong - mine works fine.
2006-05-13 @ 22:48
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoThis is what I get when following #3 instrcutions when anyone tries to go to my blog.

http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/evocms/_functions_antispam.php
2006-05-14 @ 07:06
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoNevermind and thanks; the file I dled was corrupt - redid it and it works now.
2006-05-14 @ 07:12
Comment from: Novi O'Magum [Visitor]
Novi O'MagumSolution #3 works fine here. Thanks guys!
2006-05-14 @ 09:59
Comment from: anne [Visitor]
anneThank you very much, solution no.3 works fine.
2006-05-14 @ 15:54
Comment from: Volatile Yard [Visitor]
Volatile YardThanks! Solution #3 works fine for me.
2006-05-15 @ 08:33
Comment from: Francois Planque [Member] Email
For those of you having trouble with downloading the PHP file, you can get this ZIPped version of the same file here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/evocms/_functions_antispam.zip?download
2006-05-15 @ 17:57
Comment from: egreencafes [Visitor]
egreencafesThank you, Solution #3 works great.
2006-05-15 @ 17:58
Comment from: Mike [Visitor]
MikeThanks! I'm glad I can stay up to date on my antispam! Solution 3 worked fantastic for me, no problems! Thank you!
2006-05-15 @ 20:21
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
JasonI made the changes recommended in option 3. Now I am getting the error that says: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in .../b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1082.

I can't find antispam_url() defined anywhere. Is this a problem with my theme or what?
2006-05-15 @ 21:08
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoI am all of a sudden getting the same error message. Diff line but the same one too!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in .../b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1076
2006-05-16 @ 04:28
Comment from: Sheena Van Der Mark [Visitor]
Sheena Van Der MarkJust to add another voice to the above comments - I'm also getting a similar error when I try to remove spam, but not only in a different line, it seems to also be in a differnt file:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in /hsphere/local/home/svanderm/blog.svandermark.com/admin/b2antispam.php on line 211
2006-05-16 @ 07:01
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
JasonRegarding the "antispam_url()" error a few of us have been getting.... what version of b2evo are you guys running? This update is for 0.9.1, but I'm running 0.9.0.12. Maybe the difference between 0.9.0.12 and 0.9.1 is causing this problem? Yes? No? Anybody know?
2006-05-16 @ 22:32
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
JasonI undid the changes I made to implement 'option 3' and instead implemented 'option 2.' It seems to work in version 0.9.0.12. Maybe it's time for me to upgrade again.
2006-05-16 @ 22:39
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent Navarino0.9.1 - it only happened around the time others were reporting it and then so far its not happened again. So far.
2006-05-17 @ 02:03
Comment from: Mark [Visitor]
MarkWith the following error, I changed antispam_url to antispam_check on line 211. Seems to work fine now.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in /hsphere/local/home/svanderm/blog.svandermark.com/admin/b2antispam.php on line 211
2006-05-19 @ 19:09
Comment from: Mark [Visitor]
MarkI should have added that I am running v 0.9.0.12
2006-05-19 @ 19:27
Comment from: Tejas Patel [Visitor]
Tejas PatelYeye, it works :)
2006-05-23 @ 04:17
Comment from: Michael [Visitor]
MichaelI am getting this error:

$antispamsrv_host = 'antispam.b2evolution.net'; $antispamsrv_port = 80; $antispamsrv_uri = '/evonetsrv/xmlrpc.php';
Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /srv/www/htdocs/b2evolution/blogs/b2evocore/_functions_antispam.php on line 212
2006-05-26 @ 23:58
Comment from: oswaldo [Visitor]
oswaldoThanks to Ed and Ryan!!

Solution 2 works on my 9.0.1.
2006-05-27 @ 01:26
Comment from: Jununez [Visitor]
JununezIt worked fine, thanks. That should help me until I upgrade to 0.9.2 later this week.

The spam was getting out of hand here. When I updated the blacklist, I had already lots of the domain blacklisted.

Thanks!
2006-05-29 @ 21:20
Comment from: Derek [Visitor]
DerekHi,

I'm getting this error when i try to make new posts or edit previous ones :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in /home/oneworld/public_html/music/b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1082

Any ideas what i need to do?
2006-06-07 @ 21:01
Comment from: Derek [Visitor]
DerekI downloaded old files , uploaded ones I'd changed and solution 2 worked for me.
2006-06-09 @ 12:22
Comment from: Kurt [Visitor]
KurtI'm getting this error as well..can't post right now

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in /homepages/6/d89104768/htdocs/blog/b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1082
2006-06-11 @ 02:48
Comment from: JD [Visitor]
JDIn Reference the the Call to undefined function error for the function "antispam_url()"
Just change "antispam_url()"
to "antispam_check()"
in both the
/b2evocore/_functions.php
and
/admin/b2antispam.php
I used option 3 and this worked great for me.
(and any place else this error pops up)
2006-06-12 @ 07:02
Comment from: Enric Naval [Visitor]
Enric NavalI also replaced antispam_url to antispam_check on those two files and it works fine.

I'm using 0.9.0.11-paris.
2006-06-20 @ 18:03
Comment from: MaxHedrm [Visitor] Email
MaxHedrmThis seems really odd, but all the sudden I am getting hundreds of listings when I retrive the black list. I'm on my 3rd run through.
2006-06-30 @ 18:29
Comment from: Edgar Sanchez [Visitor] Email
Edgar SanchezI keep on getting:

Requesting abuse list from antispam.b2evolution.net...

Latest update timestamp: 2006-04-30 18:07:14
Remote error: Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (5)

This is after implementing solution #3.
2006-07-15 @ 15:43
Comment from: AZOR [Visitor] Email
AZORHi, is a possible close comments for all articles?
This antispam not helping to me :-/.
Or much better: exist some plugin - a- picuters with words :o)
Thx.
btw: b2e is great i using it about 1,5yrs.
2006-08-09 @ 11:29
Comment from: blueyed [Member] Email
blueyedThere's a captcha plugin for b2evo 1.8+. Also 1.8 has quite a lot of antispam measurements on board (basic_antispam_plugin for example).
2006-08-09 @ 18:09
Comment from: Chris R [Visitor] Email
Chris RRemote error: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload (XML error: junk after document element at line 2) (2)

This is with the 1.10.2 Stable release, I tried the above mentioned solutions and no clue what I'm looking for in the debug. There something I need to look for?
2007-09-05 @ 16:14
Comment from: Francois Planque [Member] Email
There is currently a problem with the server. We're working on it.
2007-09-05 @ 16:25
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
Jason
There is currently a problem with the server. We're working on it.
Any updates on this? I'm still getting the error.
2007-09-18 @ 23:35
Comment from: Francois Planque [Member] Email
Yes, that thing snowballed and as a results we're now in the process of upgrading the whole server.
2007-09-20 @ 05:10
Comment from: Joshua [Visitor] Email
JoshuaServers seems to be up again, just updated the antispam blacklist - everything looks fine again ,-)
2007-09-29 @ 00:02
Comment from: jeremy [Visitor] Email
jeremyYeap, same here. Thanks for fixing it guys. It's an integral part of our anti-spam strategy! :)
2007-09-29 @ 03:02

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