Hi,
I recently discovered that numerous members from my forum have the same ip address, and it wasn't until a new member registered with this ip address. This new member turned out to be a nuisance, so I decided to google their ip address. I found another forum from digitalpoint.com where someone else was having the same issue.
Most of the user accounts that have the ip address have an aol.com email address, which I do know use recycled ip addresses, but there were some members that had hotmail accounts that had the same ip.
I was wondering if this could possibly be a result from ip spoofing? Or maybe just a huge coincidence...? I decided to ban the IP address until I figure out how to fix the problem. Some of the members didn't use to have this ip address til now, and since I banned the ip they can no longer get into the forum.
This is what it looks like when I did a search for the ip address in the Admin CP:
I recently discovered that numerous members from my forum have the same ip address, and it wasn't until a new member registered with this ip address. This new member turned out to be a nuisance, so I decided to google their ip address. I found another forum from digitalpoint.com where someone else was having the same issue.
Most of the user accounts that have the ip address have an aol.com email address, which I do know use recycled ip addresses, but there were some members that had hotmail accounts that had the same ip.
I was wondering if this could possibly be a result from ip spoofing? Or maybe just a huge coincidence...? I decided to ban the IP address until I figure out how to fix the problem. Some of the members didn't use to have this ip address til now, and since I banned the ip they can no longer get into the forum.
This is what it looks like when I did a search for the ip address in the Admin CP:
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