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May 13th, 2009
Everything You Wanted to Know About Country IP Blocks
Country IP Blocks was created as a resource to protect servers, systems and websites from spam, malware, cross-site scripting, website hijacking, hacking, cracking and other malicious activities. When properly implemented, using our network data in your security scripts, firewalls, Access Control Lists or .htaccess files will dramatically improve your I.T. security. More…
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I would like to include your address ranges in my product, Proto Balance – protobalance.com
This would make possible a number of extensions to my product that would be useful to my clients.
Would your be interested to discuss some kind of arrangement where I could re-distribute your IP address range list?
Paul Sheer
My webpage only serves customers in the US. Given the IP range size in the US, what is better to use, allow US or deny World-US? Also what are the performance impacts? And 3rd is it best to put this in hosts.allow/deny or in the firewall?
I currently have website under DDOS attack. I’d like to upload you a list of IP’s from my apache log and have you spit out the CIDR’s / ACL in Cisco format that i need to block and also tell me a breakdown by country of where the attack is coming from. Do you know of a tool that can do that for me?
@David
David:
Yes, we have such a tool. But we are currently rewriting the code to improve performance. The finished tool she be available soon.
@David
Based on size, it would be more efficient to do a U.S. Allow.
The performance imapcts of using such a large list will vary depending on your components: CPU, RAM, etc. We’ve tested some very large ACL’s and noticed fairly insignificant performance impacts on systems with adequate hardware.
Deciding whether to use hosts.allow/deny, .htaccess or a hardware firewall will be totally dependent on your individual system. Country IP Blocks suggests that you test each option you are considering and choose the one that best suits your needs.
Hello
Last 2 days somone with lebanonis ip is trying to attack my server.
i got from this web site the list of subnet ips of lebanon
but it looks that some or meny subnets of lebaon is missing.
is someone can give me the full list of subnets of lebaon ?
i need to block it in my iis server.
thanks in advance
Issac
Isaac: The complete list of allocated Lebanon IP Blocks is available in our Countries list. The data includes the network block, but not the refined whois data or further segmentation after allocation.
I have been attacked in the past weeks three times by muslims hackers from Syria, Tunisia, Gaza, Lebanon. The firs time they stolen my Administrator password and deleted my template, then I improved as far as I could the securty of my website.
Then they just defaced the index.php
I’m just a teacher whit an educational website and I’m not an expert in programming. I use Joomla 1.5.15 in my website. How to block and where the Ips from those countries?
Thanks for your useful website
Any word on your Cisco ACL converter?
It is one of many projects we are currently developing. No word on a final release yet.