Ip Deny Question

[bellringr]

I've been getting a steady stream of spam entries on my advanced guestbook. Several weeks ago I added a block to my .htaccess file so bots won't crawl it, but I'm sure that isn't really making a difference.

 

Of the four I've received this week, three were from the same place and I added a deny in cpanel for their entire block of IP addresses. The next day I got another with the same IP address that was supposedly blocked. (doing DNS and IP Whois).

 

So today I went into my guestbook admin and added that same block to its IP deny list. My question is, is there something about how a guestbook is set up that an IP deny is cpanel won't work? Shouldn't they, in theory, be blocked from anything on my domain or does it not work that way?

 

If anyone has any other advice for stopping guestbook spam (or at least making it more difficult for them) aside from just removing the darn thing, that'd be wonderful. It's not a huge annoyance - yet - but it's getting there.

[TCH-Don]

I had to modify the entry form to remove the home url field

and I added www and http to the curse words.

 

I know what you mean I have to edit or remove entries daily.

I am considering changing to a different guestbook.