Quick question for Mod's

[Scootin159]

I know when you ban someone you often ban their IP as well as their username (or at least that's how I understood it to work, never been banned, or plan to). Anyways, what do you do when that person is behind a private IP. Like for instance my entire college campus connects using one IP # (IT IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING BY THE WAY - I ENJOY HOSTING A SERVER). I would assume that if you were to block the IP # in that case, you would be eliminating the entire college.

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As others have posted, banning an entire IP block is a last resort, because it can block a lot of innocent bystanders. AOL is the best example of that. In the past We have had to block parts of some schools' addresse ranges until their admins could take care of someone abusing our forums from their IP address range.

I hope that answers your question.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[BurntKooshie]

I believe that there have been entire campuses banned before, though I'm not sure if they have remained banned.

 

[Scootin159]

That would make me seriously upset if someone on my campus got me banned

 

[Paulson]

IP banning is sort of a last resort, but if the problem is big enough, the mods and admin will handle it. Blocking a college out wouldn't be too hard, since they've banned most of AOL already.

It sucks, I used to be on a system like you were, but finally got my own public IP addy. Just hope no one else uses anandtech in your college

 

[Rand]

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Didnt you get an entire college or something banned back in your Neffing days?
Or perhaps i'm thinking of someone else.