Banned People Returning?

[Al For Life]

I think some people who were banned on my forum are somehow able to come back.

They've been banned by IP address, is there any way that they can do this? and if there is, is there a way I can stop it?

Thanks for your help
Al

[JPortal]

1) If they're behing a proxy they can change their IP address and I'm not aware of any way to prevent this.
2) If they're not, you can ban ranges of IP address, IE 127.0.0.*. The problem with this is that often this will also block "innocent" users.

[Al For Life]

thanks, do u know of any forum hack programs that might be able to let banned users in?

[Graham]

Hardly the sort of thing to be discussed here is it?

[Al For Life]

i dunno, im tryna find out if people are hacking my board. Im not talkin that im gonna start hackin boards.

[b3rx]

if the users is using a dialup connection. then this will be hard in banning them because their IP addresses change. i think everytime they make a connection. i guess its because of their proxy.

[Roberdin]

if the users is using a dialup connection. then this will be hard in banning them because their IP addresses change. i think everytime they make a connection. i guess its because of their proxy.

DSL providers in the UK work under the same premis.

[Psychotic_Carp]

if the users is using a dialup connection. then this will be hard in banning them because their IP addresses change. i think everytime they make a connection. i guess its because of their proxy.

DSL providers in the UK work under the same premis.

the US is the same (at least SBC is)

[SolarFX]

if the users is using a dialup connection. then this will be hard in banning them because their IP addresses change. i think everytime they make a connection. i guess its because of their proxy.

DSL providers in the UK work under the same premis.

And the US (mostly).

[APTX]

You mean DSL in the US and UK has dynamic ip's too? I have dyn ip too.