Alternative for IP lookup in Admin using Domaintools.com

[RixStix]

Is there an alternative/replacement for the built-in IP lookup within Admin that will maintain the user-friendly functionality?

It appears that domaintools.com has changed their policy and banning any lookup in excess of 10 per 24 hour period unless you have the $1000/year account.

I've never been redirected to a "Banned" screen for performing too many lookups.

[DrByte]

I've found that as long as I'm logged in with a free account they rarely tell me I've done too many lookups.
But if my login times out or I'm in a different browser (and not logged in), it'll certainly stop me until i at least do the captcha.

[RixStix]

Your observation was the same as mine until the past day or two.

Logged into the free account and get cutoff at 10 lookups (might have been 12), then redirected to a "Banned" page due to exceeding the lookup limit.
Browser doesn't matter, so it must be using my static IP address for counting.

I did find a screen that indicated their ToS were changing, effective soon. (can't find the exact date)

[carlwhat]

you could try:

https://www.iplocation.net/

[RixStix]

TNX for that. Now to see if editing whos_online.php is within my capabilities to generate the proper URL from within ZCadmin.

http://whois.domaintools.com/130.226.70.183

vs

https://www.iplocation.net/?query=64.14.232.114

[carlwhat]

try changing as such:

//Old
                <td class="dataTableContentWhois" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/<?php echo $whos_online->fields['ip_address']; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo '<u>' . $whos_online->fields['ip_address'] . '</u>'; ?></a></td>
//new
                <td class="dataTableContentWhois" align="left" valign="top"><a href="https://www.iplocation.net/?query=<?php echo $whos_online->fields['ip_address']; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo '<u>' . $whos_online->fields['ip_address'] . '</u>'; ?></a></td>

good luck!

[RixStix]

Thanks. That seems to work without a hiccup.

For anyone else who might also use the IPblocker by lat9, don't forget to insert the IPblocker code into the line.

<td class="dataTableContentWhois" align="left" valign="top"><a href="https://www.iplocation.net/?query=<?php echo $whos_online->fields['ip_address']; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo '<u>' . $whos_online->fields['ip_address'] . '</u>' . $ip_blocker_link; ?></a></td>

[DrByte]

There's also the service used in v155:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois

[RixStix]

Thanks.

I'm just not ready to think about v155. From a non-coder viewpoint, there just seems to be more significant changes and issues being ironed out on a pretty regular basis making for more answer seaching to attempt the upgrade process/implemention.

[DrByte]

Thanks.

I'm just not ready to think about v155. From a non-coder viewpoint, there just seems to be more significant changes and issues being ironed out on a pretty regular basis making for more answer seaching to attempt the upgrade process/implemention.

I'm not sure I understand which issues you're referring to.