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The major providers do this:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=416...

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Yup, and I seriously appreciate those that do that, but it's the small providers which inevitably end up screwing us over. Some small VPS company has a vulnerable server that someone makes a VPN on, and suddenly we get a wave of ban evaders. It ends up being a constant headache.

If it's default ports, you can just probe on login and deny it. We do this for a game I've admined for, and it's in the terms of service. Common L2TP, PPTP, etc.

Interesting. So if I put a terms of service discussing it on my blog can I nmap all my visitors?

Scanning the defaults for open proxies with a note in the ToS is not super uncommon with some types of services. I don't recommend sweeping random visitors to your website.

Since the OP said:

> I help develop a fairly popular webgame.

... unless the web-based game relies on a plugin that can skirt the browser's sandbox, there's no way to probe for active ports.

You can ask the server to do it for you.

Isn't this a lost battle? Only remotely possible due to IPv4 being so limited?

Do you allow normal users to get around banned IPs by buying a pass or something? (Then you can ban the pass, like 4chan.)

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