So, is there a solution to this? I love this hack, but it's stopping many users everyday from registering. They keep contacting me telling me that our system keeps saying that they are already registered. Is there something you can help me regarding this?

Are they all coming from a set of IPs as you said, like 207.1.*.*? Because if that's the case, I could probably try and rewrite this to include wildcard IPs like that. Let me know if that would work, or if not... if that won't fix it, I'm not sure if there's much that I can do.

OH that would be cool. Well, most of them are coming from AOL, whatever AOL's set of IP are. Is there a way to find those out?

Honestly, that's what I don't know. I couldn't tell you where AOL comes from, but I'd expect they'd have quite a lot of IPs and to sort through them all isn't something I have the time for. I'll try and get to this in the next couple of days, I'm rather swamped with homework right now and going to bed as soon as I click Reply.

I'm also considering an "allowed Host" thing, so you -might- (I'll have to look into this) be able to do an allow *.aol.com, thus allowing anyone on an AOL IP. I really don't know if that would physically work or not though.

That would be tight. Will wait for ya :-D

how does this check the ip? cause i had a member register 3 times with the same ip... does it work cookie based orhow does this work???

It's in the database, not based on cookies. First of all, is it turned on? Go to the ACP > vBulletin Options > User Registration Options and scroll to the bottom of the page; all your options are there, including how many you want to limit and whether or not it's enabled.

Kihon Kata: I finished a bunch of personal stuff that needed to be done first, so I'm hoping to be able to get those fixes made sometime tomorrow.

Great! Thanks Krofh! Thanks for taking the time to update this.

yeah its on and i have it set to 1 per register and i have the post turned off.... but i guess there was like a 2 or 3 days time frame and the member came back and made a new name... i banned 2 names from the same ip.. then i wrote them and let them know not to make no more..

Are you sure they registered from the same IP? That's something worth checking in the user database or in their profiles.