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Author Topic: Is it possible to ban IP ranges?  (Read 3718 times)

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neuromancer91

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Is it possible to ban IP ranges?
« on: July 05, 2007, 07:35:28 pm »
Is it possible to ban something like IP range 83.*.*.* using CPG?
In my country 90% of users has dynamic IP addresses, so the build-in banning feature is useless for me.
I can't use htaccess
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Re: Is it possible to ban IP ranges?
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2007, 09:13:20 pm »
Not unless you code it in yourself.
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Re: Is it possible to ban IP ranges?
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2007, 09:36:49 am »
As you said: most users are on dynamic IP addresses, so banning is silly in the first place. If you have issues with comment spam, don't use banning, but disable anonymous comments or use the captcha plugin or mod.
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Re: Is it possible to ban IP ranges?
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2007, 12:04:32 pm »
OK, problem solved, I found that I can use htaccess afterall, but the file is .settings not .htaccess on my server.

But all scripts that I have been using had that feature, ex. phpBB, IPB, phpfusion...
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Re: Is it possible to ban IP ranges?
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2007, 07:20:07 pm »
Just because others have a particular feature doesn't mean that coppermine needs that feature. We're convinced that IP address banning is silly in the first place, that's why we don't waste time and effort into improving the banning feature.
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