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[Oaf357]

Is this an effective way to ban a range of IPs?

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^64\.231\.[0-255]\.[0-255]$

Thanks in advance for your help.

[gergoe]

It could be efective, but this way it is not correct (and won't work), change it as follows:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^64\.231\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$
RewriteRule . - [F,L]

Regular expressions are working with strings, so the [0-255] will be processed as [0-2 5 5] so it will match 0, 1, 2 and 5, but that's all. The one I suggested above works with all the addresses from 0-255, but it is not nice, since it can match 999 and 000 also which should not appear in any ip address.

The recommended way to ban a browser based on the ip address is the Order and the Deny from directives, something like this: (this you can put into the htaccess file)

Order Deny,Allow
Deny From 64.231.0.0/16

[keyplyr]

I would just use this:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^64\.231\.