Banning a range of consecutive IP's?

[SlothVader]

I have seen a number of examples of ways to ban a range of IP's. But I have not seen the method that would work to ban the entire range from

211.215.0.0 to 211.255.255.255

For example, presently I am banning traffic from the following IP's.

deny from 211.215.
deny from 211.226.
deny from 211.227.
deny from 211.228.
deny from 211.229.
deny from 211.230.
deny from 211.231.
deny from 211.232.
deny from 211.233.
deny from 211.234.
deny from 211.238.
deny from 211.239.
deny from 211.248.
deny from 211.232.
deny from 211.233.
deny from 211.234.
deny from 211.235.
deny from 211.236.
deny from 211.237.
deny from 211.238.
deny from 211.239.
deny from 211.240.
deny from 211.241.
deny from 211.242.
deny from 211.243.
deny from 211.244.
deny from 211.245.
deny from 211.246.
deny from 211.247.
deny from 211.248.
deny from 211.248.
deny from 211.250.
deny from 211.251.
deny from 211.252.
deny from 211.253.
deny from 211.254.
deny from 211.255.

It would obviously be better for my .htaccess file (make it smaller with less lines ) if I could consolidate all those lines of 'deny' down to one line.

211.215.0.0 to 211.255.255.255

So how do I code this into one line for the .htaccess.

I have a number of situations where I want to trim down my .htaccess file and where I am trying to rid the site of visitors from

x.y.00 to x.z.255.255

Thanks in advance for your input.

[jdMorgan]

This recent thread might help: [webmasterworld.com...]

Jim