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Old 08-16-2004, 05:53 PM   #3
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The best thing to do as did was contact bellsouth, they will most likely contact the user first, considering technically they are indemnified of all actions by the user, and are not held responsible for the actions of the user. The next step would be to contact your hostirng service and find out their state law as that would be the state that would handle all actions. Only 22 of the 50 states have a law restricting connection's unless they exceed 16k which is considered an attack, but considering most telnet connections only ping at 64 bytes that probably wont be viewed as an attack more possibly the mud player left their client open and they had auto reconnect, therefor it would create a continuous loop. Another thing would be to do a permban against the site and not just a ban, unless it is taking up any bandwith (which 64k a connection probably wouldn't) theres not to much to worry about, a log aggrivation at most. Tez had the right idea with a firewall would stop the ip before it even it your server. Other than that most states do not currently hold a restriction on connection unless like I said exceeds 16k (considered a bomb). On another legal note, posting of someones Ip address is illegal in 41 states, Hawaii and Alaska being two its not, leaving all inland states to only have 7, its considered a personal identification and could fall under many constraints of the law, legal advice there just edit the ip address out of the previous post.
I would go with a firewall, something that would stop the problem at the source, does this happen constantly at all times trying to connect, does it cause any lag or anything with your gaming system?
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