How to IP ban spammers from Drupal ?

By Pushkar Gaikwad on 26 Dec 2007 at 10:22 UTC

Well seems there are few bots/ppl who are spamming my site and I think the time has come for me to start banning them as I am tired of deleting posts. Which is the BEST and easiest way to Ban such users ? I can do it from my websites cPanel but it is very painful process and time consuming. I am sure Drupal certainly provides something to handle such spamming activities.

Cheers

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Try Troll Module

rp_praveen commented 26 December 2007 at 13:25

http://drupal.org/project/troll

I haven't tried the IP Blocking feature as of yet, but the feature does exist as a contrib.

Try the Spam module

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commented 26 December 2007 at 15:19

Spam for content and Gotcha for Contact form.

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CAPTCHA "Already 700 blocked

Bubb1egum commented 22 July 2010 at 11:03

CAPTCHA "Already 700 blocked form submissions". Suck on that you spamming losers. Look at: Reports-> Recent log entries to find the spammers IP's then use User management-> Access rules to block those suckers. This website is also cool http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ they have a module on Drupal http:BL but it's outdated and still for version 5.

EDIT:
And now I see this post was for D5 anyway *facepalms*

I use this mysql query after

sam_squarewave commented 4 May 2012 at 20:12

I use this mysql query after approving all the comments I'd like to keep.

SELECT DISTINCT hostname
FROM `comment`
WHERE `status` =0
LIMIT 0 , 30

That will get you the IPs you need to block.

Add the IPs to the blocklist in admin/config/people.

Delete their accounts and all related content while you're at it.

It's not a quick solution, but it works to clean stuff up. I wish Mollom would delete accounts when you mark spam, but they just temporarily suspend them.