if you have access to the router, the best place to intercept a scoundrel
is on the router''s deny list. Login to the router.
if you have access to the http server, the second best thing to do is add
the ip to the server''s deny list.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_access.html
if those methods are unavailable, and you are using rails, you can add
the LoginEngine (http://rails-engines.rubyforge.org/), and then add the
following code,
login_engine.rb:
DENY_IP =
[''some.smart.ass.ip'',''smart.ass.2.ip'']
# do you require a login?
LOGIN_REQUIRED = false
authenticated_system.rb:
def deny( ip )
DENY_IP.detect { |addr| addr == ip }
end
def login_required
if deny(@request.env["REMOTE_ADDR"])
redirect_to_url "http://www.google.com"
return false
elsif ! LOGIN_REQUIRED
return true
end
...
end
application.rb:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include LoginEngine
before_filter :login_required
end
I''m sure there are lots of other ways, too.
Bogdan Ionescu wrote:
> Can someone suggest me a quick solution for banning certain ips from
> accessing my pages?
> Recently I''ve got a series of smartasses that think that swearing
on
> forums is cool. Banning certain words did not really help, since they
> can always write F/U/C... you the picture
>
> Thanks,
> Bogdan
>
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