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		tocomment on July 10, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Gracefully Take a Site Down For Maintenance... For smaller sites, I would just redirect everyone but my own IP address over to a maint.html page. I wrote up how I did it with .htaccess here: http://www.answermysearches.com/htaccess-block-everyone-exce...

BrandonM on July 10, 2007 [–]

Good thing it's impossible to spoof an IP address. Then again, as long as you're only relying on this for customer service and not for security, I suppose you're fine.

tocomment on July 10, 2007 | [–]

How do you spoof an IP address?

BrandonM on July 13, 2007 | | [–]

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+spoof+ip+address&i...

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