um... how do i ban someone?

[gogga]

i am the admin. i am trying to ban entire subnet... well...
somebody's loggin in from:
***1.carbondale.il.us.uu.net
***2.carbondale.il.us.uu.net
***3.carbondale.il.us.uu.net
***4.carbondale.il.us.uu.net
...

i put carbondale.il.us.uu.net in the banned ips, but the user is still able to view the board and post, etc. please please help... she is driving me along with the rest of the board nutts!!

i am an admin. version 2.2.8

[Steve Machol]

You need to enter the IP address not the resolved name. I teried to look it up but there's no IP for that name:

bash:~/txt$ host carbondale.il.us.uu.net
Host carbondale.il.us.uu.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

[gogga]

i messed up the address... i was typing it from memory... sorry...

i just banned her by email address and killed her account... that did it, apparently

[gogga]

by the way, in 3 years, she was the FIRST i just had to ban to get rid off... dontcha just hate people like that?

[kaos]

ive been up for 2 days and i've already had to ban someone

[gogga]

Originally posted by kaos
ive been up for 2 days and i've already had to ban someone

i don't ban people... we have a very tight community and we "intimidate" an offender... they usualy come back in a few days under a different login and become part of the community - me and the moderators are the only ones who really know about this... it's a thing i see happening alot lately... instead of deleting their posts i just emberas them about those posts. works like a charm... but not with that one...

[filburt1]

I ban spammers immediately, especially when they blantly ignore the bold font in the description of the ADVERTISING forum . When I ban via IP I first ban via the admin CP, and if they really start to annoy me, a .htaccess file.

When banning an existing user you might want to use the mod CP; this updates their status and dumps them in the banned usergroup in one click.

[gogga]

Originally posted by filburt1
I ban spammers immediately, especially when they blantly ignore the bold font in the description of the ADVERTISING forum . When I ban via IP I first ban via the admin CP, and if they really start to annoy me, a .htaccess file.

When banning an existing user you might want to use the mod CP; this updates their status and dumps them in the banned usergroup in one click.

thank you!! this is useful info cause i barely ever use mod thing.

how do you ban via .htaccess?

[filburt1]

If I remember...make a file named .htaccess (include the .!) with these contents

<Limit GET,POST>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from IP
</Limit>

[Steve Machol]

The HTAccess Authentication Tutorial

[gogga]

Originally posted by filburt1
If I remember...make a file named .htaccess (include the .!) with these contents

<Limit GET,POST>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from IP
</Limit>

nice nice nice.

will

deny from 123.123.123.*

work?