[IMC-Dissent-admin] IP bans

[Pseudo Punk]

joe <joe at sl4g.com> wrote:
> Fair enough, I agree that mass logging of IPs may be more trouble than
> it's worth.
> 
> However, if we managed to track down the IP of a specific troublesome
> user, is there any mechanism in place for disallowing connections from
> that IP? Obviously the Apache config on dissent is of no use - this
> would have to be on the DHCP server or upstream of it.

can't the dhcp/firewall server be configured to allow setting of
x-forwarded-for (or alikes) headers ? then you can do small login in php
... ?
Bart


> 
> thanks,
> Joe
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:31:25 -0400 (EDT), "Robert M. Meyer"
> <rmeyer at buffaloimc.org> said:
> > The DHCP server will only log internal IP addresses.  External addresses
> > are not
> > assigned by our server.  We have been harrassed by single sites, before. 
> > Usually robots that didn't follow robots.txt.  In all cases, we were able
> > to
> > track down the offending sites and inform them of our displeasure.  The
> > search
> > engines that were doing this, immediately stopped and started following
> > proper
> > robots.txt protocol.
> > 
> > We truly do not want to be in the business of generally recording IP
> > addresses.
> >  It's just bad karma, all the way around.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > Bob
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