Blocking One Country by IP

Using .htaccess

[Agitprop]

Our generic one-two-three word domain has received a cease and desist letter from a trademark holder's agent which we intent to vigourously defend. As a preemptive measure would like to permanently block that country, which we do not sell to, from accessing our domain. A look up of country based IPs located here [apnic.net...] revealed the following:

IPv4 Range CIDR

203.0.10.0-203.0.10.255 203.0.10/24 
203.0.32.0-203.0.63.255 203.0.32/19 
203.0.84.0-203.0.84.255 203.0.84/24 
203.0.97.0-203.0.97.255 203.0.97/24 
203.0.121.0-203.0.121.255 203.0.121/24

...

Our server is Apache *nix based on a virtual name-based server (bargain basement).

What would be the best method of blocking this long list of IP using .htaccess?

Any pointers to existing solutions or threads would be much appreciated.

[jdMorgan]

Agitprop,

You can get the method for blocking by classes or by CIDR directly from the examples in the Apache mod_access [httpd.apache.org] documentation.

Jim

[Agitprop]

jdMorgan,

Many thanks for the qiuck pointer to exactly what I needed to expunge this country from accessing our site!