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12-19-2006, 11:19 AM #1WHT Addict
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Blocking someone from a vbulletin board
I have a vbulletin board that I run for a gaming community. I have one user who has caused nothing but trouble, however everytime I try to ban him using his IP he just reregisters after changeing it.
Is there any other way to block a PC besides IP?
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12-19-2006, 11:21 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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The short answer is you can't block someone who really wants to get on. Your choices are either
a) manually verify each user
b) block a varients of his username
c) block his IP
d) a mixture of all of themRuss Foster - Industry Curmudgeon
Freelance Sysadmin for Hire - email vaserv@gmail.com
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12-19-2006, 11:49 AM #3WHT Addict
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i can suggest some link for vBulletin and Apache securtiy
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=212956
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172234
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211647
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1694
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12-19-2006, 12:15 PM #4WHT Addict
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I posted wrong, what I was meaning to ask was how do I block him totally from the site (board) I dont even want him to be able to access anything on the server. I keep banning his IPs but he just changes them. I want to totally cut his access off. Can you block someone by their MAC address? Is a MAC address even visible to a server to block...?
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12-19-2006, 11:45 PM #5Disabled
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Hello,
From the above link you can install the Vspam scan this will help you to block IP for the forums
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/archi...p/t-92766.html
Thank you.
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12-20-2006, 01:25 AM #6Web Hosting Guru
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If running any version of Linux, you can use the following iptables command to block by MAC address:
iptables -A INPUT --mac-source 00:00:00:00:00:00 -j DROP
[theBleeber@wht01] ~ $ cat .signature
cat: .signature: No such file or directory
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12-20-2006, 01:48 AM #7Junior Guru
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are his IPs of the same ISP and IP range? if so just block his range.. if hes using proxies theres nothing you can do..
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12-21-2006, 09:33 AM #8Disabled
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Hello,
First check if the server is under SYN attack. If it is DDOS attack then it is always better to contact the datacenter and clear the attack ny fixing a hardware firewall for your server.
Thank you.
Regards,