Ban User Feature

[jfirestone]

How does it work?  I seem to be getting "attacked" by some people in Australia (I think).  I keep getting registration requests from people I don't know, all coming from the same batch of IPs or IPs in the same area.

Failed login attempt with Username: Harral135 from IP 218.104.51.245 on Nov 03, 2007 at 12:34 AM
Failed login attempt with Username: hbw69jd21 from IP 222.183.128.25 on Nov 13, 2007 at 11:21 PM
Failed login attempt with Username: hbw69jd21 from IP 222.183.120.116 on Nov 14, 2007 at 08:53 AM
Failed login attempt with Username: rxra336 from IP 220.250.8.120 on Nov 14, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Failed login attempt with Username: lokiy001 from IP 222.183.187.223 on Nov 15, 2007 at 01:37 PM
Failed login attempt with Username: llyf100 from IP 60.190.138.197 on Nov 15, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Failed login attempt with Username: rxra336 from IP 220.250.8.120 on Nov 16, 2007 at 05:31 AM
Failed login attempt with Username: rxra336 from IP 220.250.8.120 on Nov 16, 2007 at 09:08 AM
Failed login attempt with Username: dg97o0o from IP 222.183.120.154 on Nov 16, 2007 at 12:29 PM

The logins are all failing because I have to approve all registrations.  Good thing I have that in place, who knows what would be happening right now!  Banning the names won't work, because they just keep signing up with nonsensical letter & number combos.  on 11/14 I tried banning 222.183.*.* hoping it would stop anyone from that area from registering.  As you can see from the last failed attempt that did not work.  I also have 220.250.8.120 banned, but as you can see on the 16th that IP tried to access the site under another name.

Any help would be appreciated.  I am using version 1.4.10

[Nibbler]

Use the captcha plugin to stop bots registering.

http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=36319.0

Alternatively you could block the chinese IPs using .htaccess or similar.

[jfirestone]

Thanks!  I installed that plugin, hopefully it helps!