Is there a way to use a .htaccess file to ban one particular ISP address (meaning a single PERSON, not everyone who uses the service) from viewing a website?

I think this depends on how they access their service.

If it is a dial up connection, they probably have a dynamic ip address, which would change everytime they sign off and then sign back on. That would make it impossible (as far as I know) to block just that single user.

If they have dsl or something like that they might have an ip address assigned to them, it would not change so you could block that ip,

Chris

Originally posted by Christopher
I think this depends on how they access their service.

If it is a dial up connection, they probably have a dynamic ip address, which would change everytime they sign off and then sign back on. That would make it impossible (as far as I know) to block just that single user.

If they have dsl or something like that they might have an ip address assigned to them, it would not change so you could block that ip,

Chris

Thanks Chris. All I know is this person's IP address from my message boards which is 12.248.47.20. A whois search turns up AT&T as the provider. Does it help to know that everytime this person has accessed the boards the IP address has been the same?

May just work then.

Here is what I have used to block an ip with when I was having trouble with a user:

<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from address-goes-here
</Limit>

just put it into the .htaccess

I am not an .htaccess expert though, so test :)

Chris

Originally posted by Christopher
May just work then.

Here is what I have used to block an ip with when I was having trouble with a user:

<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from address-goes-here
</Limit>

just put it into the .htaccess

I am not an .htaccess expert though, so test :)

Chris

Thanks Chris! I'll give it a try. :D

Did you consider adding this IP to your hosts.deny file ??

This means the whole server is vanished for that specific IP adres.

You can also configure IPCHAINS to add suckups to the hosts.deny automatically.

HTH Robbert

Yeah th hosts.deny file is the best place to put troublesome users.

but nevertheless IP banning is quite useless on all networks when the user knows hot to bounce off his connection from other networks.

Originally posted by cyrusTvirus
Did you consider adding this IP to your hosts.deny file ??

This means the whole server is vanished for that specific IP adres.

You can also configure IPCHAINS to add suckups to the hosts.deny automatically.

HTH Robbert

Path and telnet question...

Path: where exactly is hosts.deny?

Telnet: What is the command to "find" a certian file of folder... I thought it was "goto"

Thanks! :)

Originally posted by gertiebeth


Path and telnet question...

Path: where exactly is hosts.deny?

Telnet: What is the command to "find" a certian file of folder... I thought it was "goto"

Thanks! :)

Just found hosts.deny in etc/hosts.deny! <sheepish grin>

Now, how exactly do I write this, to block 2 IP address?

#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#