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Hey all,

 

A few months back I developed a ban extension script for Invision Power Boards to ban users from the Main Website if they were banned from the forums. Although the script works as a champ and as intended, the problem arises when a user has the same IP address as someone who has been banned in the past. 99% of the time this happens, the user is using AOL.

 

Since AOL, in their infinite wisdom, chose to issue IPs to a few thousand individuals per IP I need a method of detecing if a user is using AOL, and if so the script won't ban them. But how?

 

I'm aware of gethostbyaddr, but is there a way to use that to detect if they are aol, even though the hostname changes?

 

Thanks for any insight you all can provide!

-Smc

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