Blocking Country

[faeriedust]

I don't remember what version this was in or if it was a separate mod, but is there a way to block a whole country from being able to log in? I'm sure I've used it before but have no idea what happened to it. Does anyone remember this?

[Storman™]

You could do it with a .htaccess file but don't get too carried away otherwise you'll end up blocking every man and his dog from your forum.

Have a read HERE

Any reason why, are you getting spammed maybe ?

[faeriedust]

I'm getting zillions of people from China trying to get into my board for spamming purposes. I just can't take it anymore. I'll try anything about now. Thanks for the tip.

[Eudemon]

just a question
altho i'm not gonna do that but this seems interesting

the code generated from that site
all u gonna do is put it in htaccess of ur root directory and that would affect all the pages?
what about u wanna show some message page to those blocked ppl
or usually this will lead them to some kinda error code page
so i only have to edit that error page like 404 in my server's control panel etc...

[faeriedust]

Just to make sure I did this right, is this what it should look like?

<Files *>
   Order Deny,Allow
   # Country: CHINA
# ISO Code: CN
# Total Networks: 3,405
# Total Subnets:  331,813,888
deny from 1.0.1.0/24
deny from 1.0.2.0/23
deny from 1.0.8.0/21
deny from 1.0.32.0/19
deny from 1.1.0.0/24
deny from 1.1.2.0/23
deny from 1.1.4.0/22
deny from 1.1.8.0/21
deny from 1.1.16.0/20
deny from 1.1.32.0/19
deny from 1.2.0.0/23
deny from 1.2.2.0/24
deny from 1.2.4.0/22
deny from 1.2.8.0/21
deny from 1.2.16.0/20
deny from 1.2.32.0/19
deny from 1.2.64.0/18

deny from 223.255.236.0/22
deny from 223.255.252.0/23
#


Deny from all
   Allow from localhost
</Files>

[richardwbb]

Are you ridding Baidu (and webwarper.net, Yandex.ru) and that kind of bandwith eating and annoying log fillers?

Can you post some log? I was able to rid those good, but it takes a couple of days, editting and re-editting and again log file checking (you can filter those easy btw with something like 'type log.txt | findstr /v "g36028"  | findstr /v "File does not exist:" > logout.txt' in Windows 

That makes it easier to clean up. I reply because your filter seems a little restrict by restricting more then needed. And yes, not everything can ben filtered/ blocked, but you should be able to 'make things quiet'.