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Topic: Banning IP addresses based on Country Code

Posted By: markomeara
Subject: Banning IP addresses based on Country Code
Date Posted: 02 November 2011 at 1:26pm

Greetings,
Just wondering if this is possible. Can I somehow ban all IP addresses with a country code of China?

All my spam comes from China. I click on the IP address and can see that the lookup of the address shows the country code of China.

Is there any mod, or new feature that would allow me to ban posts from China?

Thanks
Mark

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 November 2011 at 1:55pm

IP Location databases are not free, often updated, and to have decent performance with ASP you need to use the .bin versions that require components being installed on the server.

If you wished to include IP location database as part of a product like Web Wiz Forums then the price would be even higher meaning no free editions and having to quadrupole the price of the software.

Due to these reasons there are no plans to support IP location directly within web wiz forums at this present time.

It is also very simple to change your IP by simply changing the IP in the browser header. It's very simple to do and can be done either in software or with browser add-ons.

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Posted By: markomeara
Date Posted: 02 November 2011 at 3:02pm

Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm in China and proxy servers are banned, and the ways to change the IP address are limited. You could be correct though, as the ip addressed in my spam may have been changed to indicate china.... when in fact its from somewhere else....

Thanks again for your reply. I appreciate your efforts to keep the cost of the software so low. It has been soooo helpful to people with student loan issues in Canada!

Mark