> I'm not sure apache can do that but I have one linux > box setup as firewall, > patched with patch-o-matic and I do this what you > want with iptables. Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I understand it correctly, but this sounds like you are using the IP addresses as the basis for the ban. However, as I mentioned, we do not (and cannot) ban IP addresses. We determine bad visitors by examining only the user agent, referrer and requested URI. ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx