October 13, 2003

Banning IP Addresses

Here's a whole flood of IP addressed that just got banned for posting unwelcome spam and illegal pornography links:

  • 80.58.46.235
  • 63.227.61.66
  • 200.90.65.59
  • 209.210.176.22
  • 209.210.176.21
  • 209.210.176.33
  • 209.210.176.20
  • 219.141.115.94

Cretins. Your respective ISP's have been notified and I'm taking steps to block access totally at the server level.

UPDATE: Ben and Mena are looking at ways to shut the filthy Russians down. (Not all Russians are filthy, of course - but ones who peddle child smut certainly are.)

UPDATE2: More IP addresses here, and tips on how to block a whole range in MT. Also, adding obstacles in your forms to prevent automated spamming.

UPDATE3: More tips via StopDesign

UPDATE4: Here's a perl script to automatically add ill-behaved IP's to your Deny list in .htaccess - great for those bots looking for imaginary "formmail.pl" files.

Posted by wasylik at October 13, 2003 12:12 AM | TrackBack
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