Hi all, I need to block someone from loading my website. The IP and other stats are here. First of all, I don't know whether the person's IP is dynamic or static. If I block the entire IP address (e.g. 69.208.71.131) will that be sufficient? Or should I block 69.208.71. ? If I leave that last octet blank, how many users do I risk locking out of my website? Can I presume that it's safer to block that way than blocking by ISP name? Finally, do I need to add anything to the .htaccess file other than the line: deny from (IP here) Thanks!
well you have the following options: 1. block only that ip, and check if other ips close to it visit your site (usually the last class.. so 69.208.71.0-255, except 131 which you blocked).. if they don't, it should mean that the ip is static 2. block class D from that ip, which should be 69.208.71.0/24, which blockes 69.208.71.0-255 (that means 256 ips).. this is good if it has a dynamic ip, and the host allocates ips only from the 71 C class to that area 3. block *.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net, which will assure that the user, even if he has a dynamic ip, won't be able to load the page.. however, this will block a lot more ips (depending on how many ips does ameritech.net have for dsl)
Okay, so for now I have blocked just that IP. I saw one site about .htaccess that showed some additional code saying "order allow,deny" - do I need to add that or is just the deny line fine?