'To block or not to block by Ip address...' this is a tough question to deal with, since it involves such drastic measures. I always try to exhaust all of my other alternatives before using the IP address.
One of the issues with them is their finite limited numbers. Because of this, some larger (and smaller) systems use general ip addresses to represent thousands of 'surfers'. an example would be AOL. By blocking a single ip address, you could be restricting thousands of users from AOL, and you may not even be restricting the one person (or persons) who have caused the problems. If you can identify an 'area' or 'region' that is causing troubles, (There are some foreign countries that are routinely filtered out.), you can find out the 'blocks' of ip addresses that represent those countries and block them out in that manner. William -----Original Message---- -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Nov 6, 2007 15:01 -To: "CF-Talk"<[email protected]> -Subj: CFFormProtect - -hi guys, - -i am using the CFFormProtect cfc to protect one of my client sites from spambots posting to their article comments field. it is working brilliantly - not one dodgy comment has got through. - -my concern at the moment however is that the site is being bombarded by spam attempts at the moment. - -i see that CFFormProtect records the offending IP address. would it be an option for me to log these IP's and include a check on these?? or would there be simply too many of them? - -any thoughts would be appreciated. - -mike - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
