Blocking an IP Address without HTACCESS

[kh99]

Well, I'm not sure about the meta tag thing, but the template conditional should be something like:

<!-- Block specific IP from continuing -->
<if condition="user[ipaddress] == '119.63.196.***'">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.msxlabs.org/banned.php"> 
</if>
<!-- End Block of specific IP -->

But even with that, I don't think that comparison with wildcards would work. And unfortunately there is a short list of functions you're allowed to use in a condition, and none of them let you compare substrings. So if you really wanted to go that route you'd have to do the comparison in a plugin and set a variable to use in the condition. Hope that makes sense