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Changes to Country IP Blocks

Stewart White — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:52:09 +0000

As mentioned in an earlier post, Country IP Blocks is preparing to move to a paid services model. This move is intended to help us meet our financial obligations and provide our hundreds of thousands of visitors a better experience. We are in the process of completing scripts that will only be accessible to paying [...]

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Important Upcoming Changes to Country IP Blocks

Stewart White — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:41:51 +0000

We are anticipating 2,000,000 visitors to Country IP Blocks during the month of January and somewhere between 30-50 million for all of 2012. With all these visitors and downloads we have noticed certain websites redistributing our data and in some cases even charging others for the use of our data. This is a violation of [...]

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Network Aggregation by Continent

Stewart White — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:02:07 +0000

If you need your Country IP Blocks network lists by continent, we have great news for you! Country IP Blocks has Network Aggregation Lists by Continent Available for testing. These are only available in IP range at the moment. For example: 3.0.0.0-4.255.255.255 6.0.0.0-9.255.255.255 11.0.0.0-13.255.255.255 15.0.0.0-23.23.255.255 23.32.0.0-23.67.255.255 24.0.0.0-24.30.223.255 24.31.0.0-24.41.95.255 These lists aggregate all contiguous networks in [...]

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Improving Our Country Block Accuracy

Stewart White — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:05:43 +0000

During a recent audit Country IP Blocks scored 99.3% accuracy in our access control lists. This is a significant improvement over the past year. We also audited some of our competition. We selected 26 European countries as our test. The percentages are based on the following criteria for each country: Total number of correctly assigned [...]

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Complete Bogons List

Stewart White — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:30:48 +0000

Press Release: January 8, 2012 Country IP Blocks is proud to announce that we will now include the complete list of all Bogon networks within our database (this includes IPv6 networks). Bogons are networks that are reserved, or allocated to a Regional Internet registry but unassigned. Bogons should not generally be allowed access to your [...]

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IPv6 Access Control Lists by Country

Stewart White — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:53:07 +0000

Country IP Blocks is now beta testing our latest version of IPv6 Access Control Lists by Country. You can now add IPv6 ACLs to your firewall if your firewall has IPv6 support. Please try our IPv6 Beta a try and then give us some feedback on our message board or by contacting us at connecting@countryipblocks.net. [...]

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Network Aggregation Beta

Stewart White — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:53:44 +0000

We are testing our latest IPv4 Network Aggregation scripts and would like to have your help. The current beta scripts aggregate networks in IP Range and PG2 format and will be available for testing the next several days. Both scripts allow you to select from a list of nearly 250 countries (also includes bogon IPs) [...]

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Block Networks or IP Deny By Country IP Blocks

Stewart White — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:38:20 +0000

How to use Country IP Blocks You can block the networks of any country on the planet. Whether you want to block China, block Russia, Block India or even United States networks, we have the solution. Country IP Blocks provides you with the ability to block a country or countries from your network and websites. [...]

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Don’t Let The Grinch Steal Your Christmas

Stewart White — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:43:27 +0000

Tis the Season…to be wary. With the holiday season upon us, expect an increase in SPAM, especially malicious payload SPAM claiming to be from UPS, FedEx, USPS, Amazon or other shipping or shopping outlets. Spammers are becoming more sophisticated at using social engineering techniques in their emails. These techniques are designed to get you to [...]

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Storing IP Addresses in a Database

Stewart White — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:48:53 +0000

When it comes to storing IP addresses within a database you have several options. Some people store IP addresses in a single field as DATATYPE VARCHAR in dotted decimal format. IPfield: 192.168.1.0 Others break up the dotted decimal format into 4 quads and store each quad as DATATYPE VARCHAR , SMALLINT or TINYINT, in a [...]

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Top 10 Countries with most malicious networks

Stewart White — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:23:57 +0000

search feed In the past we have released many top 10 lists showing countries in the order of spam production or other similar criteria. One of the latest lists orders the results like this: United States China Russia United Kingdom Germany Japan Brazil Romania Ukraine Turkey While the order is technically accurate when considering the [...]

Aggregating US and Canadian Networks

Stewart White — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:09:13 +0000

Canada and the United States comprise nearly 50,000 networks and 1.7 billion public IP addresses. Aggregation of these networks will substantially reduce the size of your Access Control Lists. As of today, November 30, 2011, through network aggregation, joining contiguous networks in the United States and Canada, we can reduce the size of this ACL [...]

Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack

Stewart White — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:45:46 +0000

Researchers at Columbia University claim they have discovered a previously unsuspected class of security flaws that could be devastating to millions of businesses, individuals and governments who use…printers. The printers in question are manufactured by Hewlett-Pack as part of their LaserJet Printer lines. Country IP Blocks will be monitoring this situation. For more information please [...]

Antarctica Network Ranges

Stewart White — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:25:34 +0000

For the last several years we have not segregated Antarctica network ranges in our Country IP Database. We had decided that since the amount of IP addresses involved was negligible and because all of the Antarctica IPs and networks were nested within larger blocks assigned to the European Union, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States, [...]

Access to Country Lists Restored

Stewart White — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:44:19 +0000

As thousands of you are aware, we temporarily suspended access to some of our data a couple of weeks ago. We did this in order to reduce our costs while we try to raise capital to cover our operating expenses. Some donations have trickled in and we are grateful to those who continue to financially [...]