By walterbyrd on

I know I'm not the only one being spammed from this address.

1) How do I block this address?

2) Can I report them?

3) Does anybody know who this is? I did a dig, but it didn't tell me much:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;236.212.83.202.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
236.212.83.202.in-addr.arpa. 28800 IN PTR St236.pangintl.com.

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Tiburón commented

Hi Walter,

From within Drupal you could use the IP banning feature of the Troll module (see http://drupal.org/project/troll).

To catch and unpublish spam you could use the Spam module (http://drupal.org/project/spam).

There are a few other modules though I haven't tried them. Some of them are:

If you can edit your .htaccess file then you can completely block an IP from getting anything from the server:

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
deny from 202.83.212.236
</limit>

Also if you have access to the log files of the site then look trough them. You may find parts of the request to the server that can be used to block the bot completely with the .htaccess file disregarding which IP it comes from. This also has the benefit that the bots will be blocked before getting to Drupal and thus less resources will be used on the server.

I hope this helps :-)

Regards,

Christian Larsen