Ban IP Range

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[photoman]

Hello everyone,

Could someone point out to me what I have done wrong in the following syntax? I am trying to ban the entire IP range of 218.13.0.0 to 218.18.255.255 through htaccess, but it isn't working.

SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^218\.(1[3-8])\.([0-2][0-5][0-5])\.([0-2][0-5][0-5])$ getout

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

[seindal]

You will only ban those with three digits in the last two positions.
Just use:

SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^218\.(1[3-8])\. getout

If you don't care about the last two numbers, don't match them. With regexps, only match what you care about.

René.

[photoman]

seindal, thank you very much. I wondered if I could do that, but have never seen anyone on these boards doing it in the various threads.

Thanks again!

[seindal]

Well, regexps can be quite complicated.
O'Reilly has published an entire book on regexps.