Comments on: Some support/help for Akismet

By: IP

IP — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:48:31 +0000

You can also block IP based on CIDR blocks using Iptables for example. Check out http://www.ipdeny.com

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:36:48 +0000

Comment spam is still a problem, using AJAX comment forms are not the solution and banning some IP's helps but there are still a lot of them. A nice tool to find the biggest spammer is Greasemonkey's Akismet Auntie Spam Script

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:46:53 +0000

Hi, just read your tutorial about how-to ban some IP addresses, you should check the MySQL function INET_ATON or the PHP function ip2long to for better performance.

By: PHPandMYSQL

PHPandMYSQL — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:52:34 +0000

Ban Ip address or a range of ip addresses…

How to ban an ip address or a range of ip addresses?
Here is a quick script that will allow you to ban an ip address. Example 12.345.67.89.
$my_ip_add = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if ($my_ip_add == ‘12.345.67.89′) {
echo (“banned”);
mysql_close;
ex…

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:49:44 +0000

… still not the result I have accepted, this time (one week later) there are ~800 messages by just one IP address (plus a several others):

81.95.146.227

(you need top block this address a.s.a.p.)

It looks like that my membership at blogcatalog.com is one of the reasons that this blog is spammed much more then 2 month before…

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:02:56 +0000

bad days…

only 8 days since the last clean up there are again 859 spammy comments, thats 100 a day!

Ok, this clean-up was about blocking another 50 IP addresses and I hope it takes now a little bit longer until the next 1000 spam comments about phentermine (almost belive that these spammer wants me to loose weight) lol

BTW, thats a lot of traffic 15KB a comment * 1000 = ~15MB/week, between 50-100MB for one blog site!

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:44:25 +0000

@Nick, you're right, from the manual:

Each line in the resulting array will include the line ending, so you still need to use rtrim() if you do not want the line ending present.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:42:24 +0000

@Nick,

are you sure about the “new line” character? the file function converts every row separated by the “new link” character into an array (I think you’re are thing therms of using cURL)

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:25:30 +0000

…sure this is not the best way to block spammers, but it’s very frustrating if your site get spammed by one IP address 20-30 times a day (and this way its over with them )

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:19:10 +0000

You can do the same little hack you use here with Drupal as well as wordpress, though I would go with the troll module as it has more features and options