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Topic: IP address banning

Posted By: Gazz
Subject: IP address banning
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 12:15pm

Hi, I'm a newbie to this forum and I have a forum where we have an undesirable character keep posting offensive messages, if I delete him he just registers as another member name, often cloning existing members names withe the number 1 after.

I have his IP address and I have selected it for IP address banning.

To check this works I have registered as a new member and posted a message myself from a friends PC and then banned that IP address, however if I go to the forum on my friends PC I can still post messages, am I doing something wrong?

I have not deleted my new registration user name on the forum, hope this makes sense.

Replies:

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 12:19pm

some ppl have dynamic IP.. maybe your friend has that..

Posted By: Gazz
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 12:25pm

After banning my own IP address from my office PC (I am the administrator) I then went to my friends PC and posted a new message. I checked the IP address and was still the same one as before, that shows above the message.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 12:28pm

IP banning will never be accurate, and if you do ban IP's you run the risk of innocent people not allowed access. If we had easy access to MAC addresses this whole situation would be differant.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 12:35pm

Make sure the IP address entered is in the correct format. EG.

To ban 1 IP:-

1.1.1.1.1

To ban a range:-

1.1.1.*

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