Quote Originally Posted by GremlinSA View Post
Are You Sure?? check this thread..

If there is excessive Spam, Etc coming from a Specific IP, CG admin do block the IP..

Also on my Forum site i use several methods to block out Spammers and Bandwidth wasters..

But I always do some homework on the IP's before i block them .. Like this one IP i eventually blocked that had a different UserAgent with every visit (even within the same tracking cookie).. Then I also block according to UserAgents ...

Once Your Running and Monitoring your Own WebSite/ WebServer, You'd be surprised by the Amount of Crap out there that tries to Hack, Copy or Crash a website...

And with Public Access Sites (Like CG) you can't simply rely on user access blocking, because they still have 100% access to the site(maybe with out been able to post/ comment), and this still allows people to be malicious on the site.. SQL injection attacks don't require the user to be registered, just that the site accepts his requests..
These are all reactive counter measures. Someone has to do something against some rules, so that particular person can be analysed for the respective procedure (i.e. being IP banned).

If one has to deal with DoS/DDoS or any other form of attacks, its one thing but here (if I'm not mistaken) the issue is to provide access of a web site to only valid users.

Perhaps the OP can clarify that what exactly he/she wants?