Comments on: Why You Need Country IP Blocks

By: admin

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:56:29 +0000

We are considering the addition of the features you mentioned, but will probably do so with subscription access so we can recoup some of our costs.

By: Peer Heinlein

Peer Heinlein — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:00:20 +0000

It would be useful to have consolidated network blocks. There are many small subnets for China for example — from 112.0.0.0 to 112.255.255.255. These many subnets give a bad performance on a firewall — a simple consolidated 112.0.0.0/8 would be much better.

And: It would be useful to have simple persistant download links. It’d like to update China and other contries by just downloading an ASCII-file. I don’t want do cut & paste manually.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:49:39 +0000

The format you use may depend on your hardware firewall. If you don’t have a hardware firewall your choice may depend on the volume of data you are using and the software you use. If you want to run the block on your comment page the most efficent way to do so would be to store the data in a database and use a PHP script to do the search.

As for the format, I would suggest storing your IP blocks in decimal. This makes them easier to use and provides for faster searching. We may consider providing the data in a database ready format along with scripts to create the database and add the data. We would also include a PHP script for searches.

Do you think this would be helpful? If we can get enough interest from our visitors, which would need to include linkbacks/mentions on their blogs, websites, etc.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:05:59 +0000

Agree completely with this service. What’s the most efficient way to use this data in a PHP script? IP range? Are there good sample scripts out there? I just want to run the block on my comments submit page. Thanks!