Daniel Mayer wrote:
Only 999,999 IPs to go! He'll keep coming back in
the 142.177 range since he
is on a dynamic IP (Sympatico.ca; Toronto POP). Range bans become temping in
this case....
I have no objection to a temporary range ban in this case, if it
becomes necessary. It's actually not 999,999, because there are only
256 alternatives per number. So it's 256*256 = 65,536.
What would be neat would be able to 'soft ban' certain ip number
ranges in extreme cases. We've never had to do that (yet), but a
'soft ban' would mean that people can't edit from those ips unless
logged in, and that new accounts on those ips would be flagged for
monitoring, just in case.
--Jimbo