How to stop these IP address 5.39.69.29 and 178.235.232.199

[Dave]

I'm being constantly attacked by the same IP address out of France and
Poland. How do I get them to stop? I've sent complaints to their ISP with
no avail. I've finally put up a firewall to block them and they STILL keep
attacking.

Here are the IP addresses:

5.39.69.29

178.235.232.199

[VanguardLH]

You're posting in an [anti-]spamming newsgroup yet you're asking about
*connections* to your host (and using a firewall to reject those
connections). So which problem are you having: spamming or unsolicited
connections?

Sending complaints to some general abuse e-mail address at an ISP isn't
going to do much and results, if any, will be very delayed assuming the
attackers are still attacking by then. Have you contacted your own ISP
to report the attacks? One ISP talking to another results in faster
action (but assumes your own ISP takes action).


You "finally" put up a firewall. So why haven't you had one before?
Even most consumer-grade routers have a firewall. If you have any
version of Windows after XP SP-2 then you had a software firewall
available all the time.

[Dave]

"VanguardLH" <V...@nguard.LH> wrote in message
news:kccld3$pfe$1...@news.albasani.net...

> "Dave" wrote:

>
> You "finally" put up a firewall. So why haven't you had one before?
> Even most consumer-grade routers have a firewall. If you have any
> version of Windows after XP SP-2 then you had a software firewall
> available all the time.

It didn't bother me before for the last few years, but now I'm looking thru
my Error logs, its a SpamBot or something trying to break in using a script.
I noticed it comes from the same IP tryin to log in with different
usernames... and it won't stop. I have a personal and community websites
and theyre trying to break in the community website.
I was just wondering if there was another way to stop them other than a
firewall...

I was getting flustered and reallly wanted to 'fire back' at them, but, I
think my only hope is to move this community site off this server and
relocate to a major web host company so they can deal with them.

Just curios and thanks for your help.

[VanguardLH]

While reporting the abuse to the originating ISP might have some effect,
every ISP is more concerned with the needs of their own customers.
Outsiders get the least priority, if any. That's why I mentioned
contacting your own ISP. That invasion traffic is coming over their
network and you are their customer. They may, for example, be able to
block all traffic from that source and then notify the source of their
blocking. Then it's likely the source, if a legitimate ISP, will
respond because they don't want all their traffic (from their customers
and to sites hosted on their network) to get blocked, especially if
yours is a large ISP.

Your ISP may, if they choose, contact authorities in the country where
the abuse originates to initiate further action over there. They may,
for example, be able to track how many of their customers are getting
attacked versus your single complaint. If the attack is large enough
and the value of harm considered sufficient then your ISP has more
muster to attack the attacker than you. It's likely the attacker is not
just attacking you but hitting many places and a large percentage could
be at the same ISP.