RE: FN-FORUM: Blocking IPs

date posted 1st February 2007 14:45

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I've been delving further into the stats for the clients site
> that has gone over its bandwidth limit and find a couple of
> odd IP addresses that are using up a lot of bandwidth. The
> hosting uses Helm control panel and I can't immediately find
> a way to do it through there. Is the most effective way using
> a .htaccess file or does anyone have any alternative methods?
>
> Michelle

I know it is not what you are asking but be careful about blocking Ips just
because they have heavy traffic, they could be proxy servers on services
like NTL, AOL etc. or in some countries where whole towns can share an IP.
Furthermore genuine malicious users will quickly bypass an IP block.
Therefore you can hurt genuine traffic without helping with the original
issue.

Regards,

Dai

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