Banning Hosts?

I keep getting spam in my guestbook from one certain ISP host. when he/she signs, it doesn't give me an IP address, just the host of "dyn-213-36-2-218.ppp.tiscali.fr"

Is there a way to ban that in advanced guestbook 2.2? Or is 213.36.2.218 the IP address?

Any help would be great. This idiot spams my guestbook at least 5 times a day and leaves their URL to either porn site or a viagra website. Ugh.

I am having the very same issue with a web site for a christian support group I created. The spamming is of a very ofensive nature. I have removed the webpage entry from the form section. Now they are starting to put the links in the location or description fields. It looks like I will have to take the guest book down since I cannot ban them.

Joe

Hello Meowza.

The IP is indeed 213.36.2.218
You can ban IP's in the admin section under:

General settings
and then at the bottom:
Banned IP?

To Joe,

Look at there posts and ban the IP's they use

Thank you SO much.

You have taken so much worry from me! *LOL*

Yes, thanks a lot dude!

So who is this idiot anyway and how are they affecting so many books? Are they running a script?

There was a website with a script where you could post a message and sign a couple of hundred guestbooks at once.

The site was reachable thru http://212.98.150.6/ but the site is restricted now.

You could ban the complete IP range in your htaccess as 212.98

that will ban his entire ISP.
He uses a dynamic IP address, and blocking the actual referring site will not help.

Don't worry, it is an ISP from Beirut, Lebanon. I don't think too many people are concerned about Lebanese visiting your website.

I only get a host name, does anyone know how to ban it from just that information??>..

What is the host name?

I get a host name, too. An example is "Host: hostname.org". No numbers show up. Is there a way to stop abuse from a host such as this?

Jam'n,
I've created the following entry in my .htaccess

<Limit GET PUT POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 212.98
</Limit>

With reference to your previous banning post, would this work?