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Date Posted: 22:20:56 03/10/01 Sat
Author: Brandon
Subject: Re: A question about banning....
In reply to: Soul 's message, "A question about banning...." on 18:35:15 03/07/01 Wed

Dear Soul,

Banning works perfectly for whatever you ban. If you ban a specific IP, that IP is banned. If that IP can be "reversed" to a hostname (IP addresses must be looked-up in order to get the readable "Hostname"), then you can ban that. AOL has many many IP addresses, so to attempt to ban AOL users by IP address would probably proove futile -- each time the person calls back in they will have a new one, and this may be very different from before.

However, the hostnames may all end with aol.com, so you can use a hostname ban instead of an IP ban by entering "*.aol.com". That's a bit extreme, of course, for it bans everyone coming from .aol.com, but it's here for the example.

Some networks have a much more limited number of IP addresses, so you can ban entire IP networks by using a wildcard like: 127.0.0.* This means, no matter what the Hostname is, those IPs are banned.

Basically, you have to look at the Hostnames and IPs of the posters causing you hassle in order to determine the most useful ban to use. If you have problems figuring it out, send us an e-mail or post it here and we'll see if we can work it out.

Sincerely,
Brandon
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>I was just wondering how precise the banning system is?
>What I mean is, does it just ban servers (AOL for
>example) or does it ban single IP adresses while other
>adresses on that service can get through (IE let's say
>a person on AOL spams a board, now on some other
>message boards, if they ban that one persons IP
>adress, then everyone on AOL is denied acess. I wonder
>if that is the case with voy.)
>
>
>Thanks for your time
>
>
>Soul
>board 8326

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