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Banning IPs ?

Postby Jim » 02 Aug 2011, 10:38

If I want to ban this whole IP range, what should the entry look like in the IP ban section?

121.54.0.0 - 121.54.127.255

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby RMcGirr83 » 02 Aug 2011, 10:40

121.54.*.*

Though banning IPs really doesn't do anything as many can use a proxy to get around their IP being banned.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby Jim » 02 Aug 2011, 10:49

Thanks for the quick response!

So it seems I have allot of friends from the phillipines, Pakistan, Iraq, Korea, China, bangladesh. I need to keep them away from my forum, is it best just to delete the account on a one to one basis? or is there a better way? It is obvious they are live spammers because they get around the whole verification process.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby Jim » 02 Aug 2011, 10:53

spambot captcha?..... and are you a Bot question.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby RMcGirr83 » 02 Aug 2011, 10:57

Jim is this on tinboats.net? There really isn't a whole lot you can do against human spammers except ban the entire country via .htaccess as I stated above.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby Jim » 02 Aug 2011, 10:59

yes it is! No worries Rich! It will keep me on my toes.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby RMcGirr83 » 02 Aug 2011, 11:03

Okay, let me know if you want to ban IP addresses and we'll get 'er done.

For others this is what his registration page looks like

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Looks like you have a question answer thing (Are you a bot), pick the middle number and the antibot mod installed as well as the new recaptcha. FWIW, you can try changing those question and answer thingies around a bit to throw them a curve ball to see if that helps at all.

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Re: Banning IPs ?

Postby ShadowmanUK » 02 Aug 2011, 12:12

Yeah .htaccess is great for stuff like this but bearing in mind as Rich says people can just use proxies if they are persistent, but you can of course block the proxy as well ;)

As for a captcha I've started to use this recently, seems to work well:- http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/s ... c789ffa60d


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