Banning from a forum?

Banning from a forum?

• Andre's

  So there is no way to ban a specific computer or internet connection
  

• tabdalla

  Does this forum not concern web technoligies such as server side code php etc

  I might got confused, where should I ask this question

  
  

• osamaT

  Sounded like you were asking about banning on these forums.

  It would depend on your forum.  If your forum requires login to perform an action then simply disabling a login might suffice if your login validation requires a valid email.  You could add a rule that certain IP addresses are forwarded to a "no access" page; but that would tend to ban more than one computer as the IP a web server sees is generally the gateway's IP address.  In large organizations many users access the Internet via a single gateway--banning an IP would ban that entire organization.

  
  
  

• Adam Uebel

  It would be hard to ban a specific computer. With network address translation (NAT) on a gateway, all packets one computers sends to the Internet are translated back-and-forth by the NAT--which essentially masquerades as the other computer (delegates, or proxys). This usually happens for all computers behind that gateway/firewall. For security reasons the IP addresses of the actual computers behind the firewalls cannot be known. In most cases the IPs of those computers are invalid outside the network anyway. For example, the address 192.168.0.x is not a valid Internet address, it won't get routed over the Internet.

  The only reliable way to ban a users is to lock their account/login (e.g. change their password without telling them) and have your account creation process validate new accounts by sending an email with a verification link and not allowing two accounts to have the same email. Unless the user can continually create a new email whenever they want to get back in, they're essentially locked out.

  
  
  

• Rajendra Sabat

  In what relation to Internet Explorer Web Development
  
  
• Banning from a forum?