Ban a host address.

[Mattrix18]

How can I ban a host address?

[Steve Machol]

Ban them from what and what do you mean by 'host address'?

[Mattrix18]

I would like them to have no access on my forum.

For example, I would like to ban: *.lns.syd2.isp.net.au

That isn't a real host address but just an example.

[Colin F]

That's not possible at this time.

[Rich_Z]

To make sure I understand this, does this mean I cannot ban something like "@*.ru"?

There are email addresses from out of the country relevant to my site that have no business being there except to post spam. So I want to block them ALL.

Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

You can ban email addresses from registering. There is nothing ion vB that will ban domains from viewing your site. That needs to be done on the server level. Using htaccess is one possible way.

[Rich_Z]

So this syntax "@*.ru" will work to ban ALL .ru ISPs from registering?

[Watched]

i too would like more information on this topic, i have a certain member who bypasses all anti-troll hacks i put on the forums and creates himself anywhere from 1-50 additional user accounts then wreaks havok spamming all over the place.. his isp is NTL in the uk.. personally, i'd just like to block everything comming out of the uk by blocking all of NTL itself.. however, from what i've seen vb doesn't have support for this .. which makes ip banning completely ineffective.. especially since ntl uses a transparent proxy so you can never get a complete lock on his REAL ip.. just the one the isp points you back to .. which is never his. ofcourse following this same line of thinking, i'd also like a way to use domain banning to ban all TOR proxy servers.. since most of them in some way resolve to *tor* .. eg *.torproxy.com *.tor.proxy. *.tor*. etc..

[Steve Machol]

So this syntax "@*.ru" will work to ban ALL .ru ISPs from registering?

Just add this to the email ban list:

.ru

This will block 'email addresses' not ISPs. If they use a hotmail.com address they will be able to register unless you follow the htaccess instructions I linked to.

[Mattrix18]

It is something phpBB has, so maybe it should be something vBulletin should consider adding in one of their next updates.

Sometimes you need to get rid of a user permanently without having to login to cPanel all the time to do it.

And anyway, cPanel doesn't let you ban a *.isp.net.au domain. You have to specify a specific IP.

[TygerTyger]

And anyway, cPanel doesn't let you ban a *.isp.net.au domain. You have to specify a specific IP.

CPanel is the sort of "Admin for dummies" of dealing with things like that. .htaccess can do it, you just have to do it manually yourself.

I'm very surprised that vBulletin can't block hostnames.