IP banning
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IP banning
I don't understand IP banning. What good is it if someone uses dialup with a dynamic IP address. Does'nt it change every time? Ok some people use broadband but that is a minority.
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Re: IP banning
IIRC, it changes but only within a fairly narrow range. The solution is to ban every address within that range. This can sometimes up banning others as we'll, but its possible to selectively unban other addresses and allow them in. However this doesnt happen a huge amount.johnpham wrote:I don't understand IP banning. What good is it if someone uses dialup with a dynamic IP address. Does'nt it change every time? Ok some people use broadband but that is a minority.
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What you can do is ban a dns, those don;t change since they are ussually based on a static ID.
The internet has too many entry points to truely affect a ban on someone. The best you can do is background checks or something to establish a real world ID and people don't want to do that.
The internet has too many entry points to truely affect a ban on someone. The best you can do is background checks or something to establish a real world ID and people don't want to do that.
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Banning a DNS???
That would be pointless
A dns only resolves fqdn / ip addresses banning the dns would accomplish nada.
That would be pointless
A dns only resolves fqdn / ip addresses banning the dns would accomplish nada.
[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img]
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dynamic ip'ng is not something I am particuraly familiar with, but if I am correct, when you log dyanmic, the ISP tags you with a dns for your requests/forwarding and such, and i don't think that changes. I think you can ban that. Anyone more familiar with that?
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Ahh you are thinking DHCP that's a big differenceAzeron wrote:dynamic ip'ng is not something I am particuraly familiar with, but if I am correct, when you log dyanmic, the ISP tags you with a dns for your requests/forwarding and such, and i don't think that changes. I think you can ban that. Anyone more familiar with that?
If i hosted a site like sd.net and would like to eliminate a user from an ip address say 192.168.0.5 but that user shows up again but this time using the ip 192.168.0.98.
This is a sure sign pointing to the use of DHCP to ban this user I would have to ban 192.168.0.0/24 this ban would affect any user between the addresses 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255 and hopefully eliminate that user.
Say that the DHCP has the address 192.168.0.1 banning this address accomplishes absolutely nothing
Because it’s only handing out addresses to the client but not connecting to sd.net in any way.[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img]
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius