help addban

addban <address>

Bans the specified address. You can use IP address or RDNS names, and you can specify wildcards. For example, to ban everyone from Hull University, 'addban *.hull.ac.uk'.

Normal bans are checked at connection time rather than at login time. You can also do bans of the form 'F*@*aol.com' to stop people called 'F' logging in from AOL hosts. If you have '*@foo' as a ban then you can have a 'whitelist' to override the ban by specifying '!orange@foo', which indicates that only Orange will be allowed to log in from foo.

Additionally, newbie bans are supported, though due to technical reasons only by IP address. For example, you can ban "new@127.0.0.1" and it will ban all newbies from localhost.

If you wish to suppress admin messages about banned conections, use the second level of banning by prefixing a % in front of the ban string. The messages will still go to the log, but will not be displayed on admins' screens.

see also:
bans, remban