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how to stop spam bots completely?

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domscatterbrain:
Ok, a few hours ago my forum got massively spammed. I've banned all users and IP related to those spam. Also i've add those spammers IP address in htaccess.
So far so good but then i realized that my site now loading slowly. I checked the log and it seems that those spam bots still trying to log in to my forum (which causing massive flood in ban log)

banned ip in my SMF ban triggers

--- Code: ---46.119.116.151
46.119.123.156

--- End code ---

i've put this in htaccess

--- Code: ---order allow,deny
deny from 46.119.0.0 - 46.119.255.255
allow from all

--- End code ---

mashby:
Sorry to read about this. You could try to install one of the Spam Prevention mods, or even just add registration questions which is available in 2.0.2. Maybe that will settle things down on your site.

domscatterbrain:
it seems that the bot bypassing the htaccess, should i contact my hosting support?

busterone:
The ip formatting will not work. Try this instead.


--- Code: ---## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 46.119
allow from all
</Limit>

--- End code ---

domscatterbrain:
Wow, work like charm, many thanks.
I'm new to htaccess configuration and google give a lot of different solution to ban an ip range that made me confused.

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