tantalus - 12:51 pm on Nov 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

"> You don't want to block an IP for eternity.

That is the hardest part. I was tracking all the ips with "reason for ban" in a spreadsheet. it has about 20k ips in it that we have banned the last few years. I take the ip off after about 5-6 months."

I'm no Unix Expert and I apologise if this has already been covered. But this has been sitting in my bookmarks for last year or so. [neilgunton.com ] From my limited POV it looks good.