iT experts?

[fotoman]

I have a battle of the bands I am getting into. The vote is just to get in. They are using ip addresses to allow only people within 100 miles of the venue to vote.

Is there anyway to spoof that so i can get my other friends to vote?

[Ronin]

There is spoofing, and then there is proxying. You probably won't have the mad hacker skills to spoof from your house since that would mean compromising internet routing.

You therefore have two viable options.

1.) Use a proxy service like hidemyass.com that lets you select geographic based proxy servers in all major cities. So as long as you are 100 miles from a MAJOR city, this is an option. CONS: This service requires paying for it. Also, you will need to "Rotate" IP's, because the vote/contests probably looks at "unique" IP's, or weights them. 100 votes from the same IP might be discounted. HideMyAss does allow Rotating IP's.

2.) Just use social engineering/networking. Got a Twitter Feed? Got some people in the area that can use Twitter to encourage people to vote? (I HATE FaceBook, but same logic applies here). Leverage Social Networks to Rock the Vote. Best of all it is FREE.

HTH

[fotoman]

Yeah, thanks. We have ALOT those resources. But, having forum members vote, would be at least 1k people

[Ronin]

I see, so you are not looking to spoof yourself, but have others (say members here), spoof ourselves to vote for you. Got it. No easy free way to do that.

[fotoman]

Cool. Thanks. Yeah. My largest group of real world friends are 200 miles away, the contest is only 100 miles. Not even counting the forum, I'm losing +/- 500 votes, vs the 100 votes I have available.