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The NEW central antispam blacklist

Posted by fplanque on May 12, 2006 in 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

Reed Loden

Uhh, 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

ednong

Hi,
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

John

Thanks, solution 3 worked fine.

2006-05-12 @ 22:20

Comment from: beano

Great 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

Vincent Navarino

Tried 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

Robbo

Thanks to Ed and Ryan for keeping this valuable tool going…

2006-05-13 @ 03:54

Comment from: Melle

Melle

cheers!

2006-05-13 @ 13:58

Comment from: beano

Vincent if it doesn’t work you’ve done something wrong - mine works fine.

2006-05-13 @ 22:48

Comment from: Vincent Navarino

Vincent Navarino

This 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

Vincent Navarino

Nevermind and thanks; the file I dled was corrupt - redid it and it works now.

2006-05-14 @ 07:12

Comment from: Novi O'Magum

Novi O'Magum

Solution #3 works fine here. Thanks guys!

2006-05-14 @ 09:59

Comment from: anne

anne

Thank you very much, solution no.3 works fine.

2006-05-14 @ 15:54

Comment from: Volatile Yard

Volatile Yard

Thanks! Solution #3 works fine for me.

2006-05-15 @ 08:33

Comment from: fplanque

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

egreencafes

Thank you, Solution #3 works great.

2006-05-15 @ 17:58

Comment from: Mike

Mike

Thanks! 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

Jason

I 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

Vincent Navarino

I 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

Sheena Van Der Mark

Just 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

Jason

Regarding 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

Jason

I 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

Vincent Navarino

0.9.1 - 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

Mark

With 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

Mark

I should have added that I am running v 0.9.0.12

2006-05-19 @ 19:27

Comment from: Tejas Patel

Tejas Patel

Yeye, it works :)

2006-05-23 @ 04:17

Comment from: Michael

Michael

I 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

oswaldo

Thanks to Ed and Ryan!!

Solution 2 works on my 9.0.1.

2006-05-27 @ 01:26

Comment from: Jununez

Jununez

It 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

Derek

Hi,

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

Derek

I downloaded old files , uploaded ones I’d changed and solution 2 worked for me.

2006-06-09 @ 12:22

Comment from: Kurt

Kurt

I’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

JD

In 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

Enric Naval

I 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

MaxHedrm

This 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

Edgar Sanchez

I 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

AZOR

Hi, 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

There’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

Chris R

Remote 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: fplanque

There is currently a problem with the server. We’re working on it.

2007-09-05 @ 16:25

Comment from: Jason

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: fplanque

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

Joshua

Servers seems to be up again, just updated the antispam blacklist - everything looks fine again ,-)

2007-09-29 @ 00:02

Comment from: jeremy

jeremy

Yeap, 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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