Has anyone ever seen or wrote an htaccess file that blocks all non US networks or have any advise on best-way to do it.
Netizen
7:33 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)
That could be one big .htaccess file. I am not an expert but I would have thought this was pretty impossible to do in a simple way. Whilst some class A and B addresses are exclusively US (say owned by a US ISP) I can't see this being a simple job. Class A is x.*.*.* Class B is x.y.*.* Class C is x.y.z.* - here [webopedia.com] is a good explanation.
Timotheos
8:46 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)
Another option is to use the php tools at ip-to-country.com
Netizen
8:52 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)
Or you can download their database (freely available) and do it yourself.
Key_Master
9:16 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)
Consider using Language support in Apache [www-106.ibm.com] instead. You can ban non-english speaking people from your site. Not the same thing as IP blocking but much easier to implement. Browsers tell the server which language(s) they prefer. For example, my browser sends "en-us" for "English-United States" although many browsers simply send "en".
eaden
9:58 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)
1 ) download the ip-to-country database linked to on php.net 2 ) using that, generate a .htaccess
