RESOLVED: Blocking Proxies

[Asia]

Just a quick question: is it possible to block proxies from being used on an IPBoard? I help admin a forum where there are quite a few 'undesirable elements' making obnoxious and sometimes rude, posts. I am quite positive that they're using proxies to log into the board, as their IPs have been banned in the past. Is there a way, a mod, a code...that I can use to protect myself against major proxies?

And if so, can anyone let me know, how to do it?

[DawPi]

Nope. It's impossible. But if you have proxies IP's then you can ban it in .htaccess file, though.

[Asia]

I've never done an .htaccess file before. How would I proceed?

[DawPi]

Simply, add something like this:

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from 12.148.209.196

More IP's:

Deny from 12.175.0.35
Deny from 12.215.212.252
Deny from 12.222.95.33
Deny from 12.41.134.194

And so on..

[Asia]

Excellent - thank you! Seems easy enough.

[DawPi]

The issue this topic was opened for has now been resolved.