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Old 07-23-2009, 09:09 PM
Tiron Tiron is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
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After reading all 10 pages (whew), I do see one of the concerns with an automated system have been addressed. a Gateway/NAT setup, which a lot of people have to use to share a connection, causes all computers behind it to have the same IP. But since you're now handling these situations after the ban, that's covered.

The other big concern would be dynamic IPs. I don't know for sure how common it is, but my DSL setup uses Dynamic IPs(with my modem acting as a NAT router when it's not supposed to, it now only changes if the router is reset). In such a situation, it would be (extremely) unlikely but possible for two people who don't even know each other but are on the same ISP to come up with the same IP.

This'd generally be pretty easily detected by the admin as when they checked logs they'd see the IP address changing regularly. The problem being...they wouldn't know why they were banned(assuming they do get banned), and thus who to contact.

Just a thought.