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Hello, when I ban spammers I use the 127.0.0.0* option to ban blocks of ip's. But on occation when I try to ban a new spammers ip I get the message that it's already banned... so how come they were able to join??

I often search ips to see if the user has multiple accounts and if so I remove/ban them. Lately I have gotten complaint that people with only 1 account still have been banned.
So I'm getting concerned that the ip shown are not accurate and I have banned innocent accounts...

I recently upgraded from 1.6.10 to 1.6.12 and everything else runs smoothly. So how would I go about to check this?

Thank you
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Additional info: I noticed that if there's a space before or after the ip when doing a search it will give you false results, so I'm aware of that.
This occurs when I click on Logged ip adress in post, so there's no typo or spaces, and I get a list of multiple accounts using the same ip. I find it hard to belive that people on devices with random ip's all would use the same provider and when posting on my board get the same ip.

Thank you
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Please test it on real hosting and not on the localhost I have the same issue when testing IP features on localhost

I have not tested on localhost, I just used that ip nr as an example of how I ban block of ip's and yet people can join and post using ip's already banned.

Thank you

127.0.0.0* wouldn't match any IP, even 127.0.0.0 wouldn't be banned.

127.0.0.0 is localhost baby!

127.0.0.1 is localhost

The OP isn't using that address. He was using it as an example.

(2014-01-30, 07:22 PM)Nathan Malcolm Wrote: [ -> ]The OP isn't using that address. He was using it as an example.

I was replying to Marcus, but didn't quote him:

(2014-01-30, 05:43 PM)marcus123 Wrote: [ -> ]127.0.0.0 is localhost baby!

You right 127.0.0.1 is localhost my bad I am sorry!