Implement a permanent IP ban

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Implement a permanent IP ban

seanlinsley opened this issue 12 years ago · 3 comments

We ultimately need a permanent IP ban to prevent the unending spam. Preferably the list would be stored on disk, but on Heroku you can't rely on that for persistent storage. That seems to only leave the database. The problem with that is the database itself isn't meant to be permanent; the demo app comes with a rake task to build data so there's something to look at.

A messy workaround would be to update the rake task to copy any IPs currently in the database, then to re-insert them when the database is re-seeded.

seanlinsley commented 12 years ago

ref #13

Answer 1 · 2014-10-30T15:53:15.000Z

We could use two databases, one for the data (mysql) and one for the ips (redis)

Answer 2 · 2015-01-17T22:16:53.000Z

In #23 we have preferred a different solution #21