Forum Blocking IP addresses
 

hello,

could someone tell me how to block IP addresses from entering or accessing the forum??

i have a group of IP address

150.70.97.41
150-70-172-209.trendmicro.com
wtp-g3-maya11.sjdc
wtp-gd-maya5.iad1

many more....

They are always inside the forum which is private, and they are always viewing threads and profiles and
even threads in the private mods only forum. the IP does not belong to a member but after a quick search
i found this is a Japan IP and every IP is all leads to the same group of IP.

my main concern for this is that i recently received a "Data base error" message stating that


Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User ###### already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections


how do i stop this IP ???
How do i stop entry to a private forum???