how to ban a users internet host name

[Markos]

is there anyway that u can ban a users internet host name like thes ones
bt broadband
host86-150-83-131.range86-150.btcentralplus.com
skybroadband
5ac35f47.bb.sky.com

[UKBusinessLive]

Hi

You can add to your .htaccess, something along the lines of

deny from host86-150-83-131.range86-150.btcentralplus.com
deny from skybroadband 5ac35f47.bb.sky.com

However keep in mind this is essentially blocking an whole area or ISP.

take care

[Markos]

thanks UKBL but every ip host has a diff hotname so will it not just ban that ip host ?if i put

deny from range86-150.btcentralplus.com

will that not ban all bt broadband ISP

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Markos

thanks UKBL but every ip host has a diff hotname so will it not just ban that ip host ?if i put

deny from range86-150.btcentralplus.com

will that not ban all bt broadband ISP

Yes that will, thats why you need to be careful when trying to ban hostnames

[Markos]

ok i will give it a try LOL and see how it gose i really hate isp's that allow them to change there ip's LOL

[UKBusinessLive]

Rather than ban the whole isp from accessing your site why don't you just ban a range ???

Say for example if his ip addy is 66.229.58.221 and then 66.229.44.198 and then 66.229.14.121 you could just simply add 66.229.*.* to your ban list in your admincp, what that will do is to ban 66.229 and every other variable after that

this might be a better option for you

Heres a bit more on ip addresses and if you read half way down you'll know why his ip address keeps changing (in Red)

An IP address is a number composed of four parts (called octets) that is used to identify your computer on the internet. (The format is 1.1.1.1 - four octets make up one address.)

There are two types of IP addresses that a computer can have - static and dynamic. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) determines which type you have, but in general, residential accounts have dynamic IP addresses and business accounts have static IP addresses.

If you have a static IP address, your IP address does not change and is used as a consistent identifier for your computer by other computers on the Internet.

If you have a dynamic IP address, then when your computer connects to the Internet, you will get a randomly assigned IP address from a pool of IP addresses available from your ISP, and the IP address assigned to you may be different every time you connect.

IP addresses are important in email delivery. When you send a piece of mail, the headers of that mail will contain your IP address.

If you have a static IP address, this allows AOL (or any other recipient of the email) to 'track' that piece of email from where it was sent to our incoming mail servers.

If you have a dynamic IP address, we cannot perform this tracking, and so AOL is unable to accept mail from mail servers hosted on dynamic IP addresses.

IP addresses are also how your reverse DNS is determined.

AOL requires that all connecting mail servers have a static IP address with reverse DNS enabled