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IP banning
Posted: 2002-10-03 04:19pm
by Guest
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.
Re: IP banning
Posted: 2002-10-03 04:31pm
by Sea Skimmer
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.
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.
Posted: 2002-10-03 04:40pm
by Azeron
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.
Posted: 2002-10-03 05:14pm
by Faram
Banning a DNS???
That would be pointless
A dns only resolves fqdn / ip addresses banning the dns would accomplish nada.
Posted: 2002-10-03 05:41pm
by Azeron
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?
Posted: 2002-10-03 05:47pm
by Faram
Azeron 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?
Ahh you are thinking DHCP that's a big difference
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.