banning countries

New Member Joined: Feb 10, 2009 Posts: 19

is there a way to ban an entire country the only way i can see involves you having to do it for every range in that country, some of the countrys have 5 pages of ranges......
surley there is an easy way to do this. i have read other forum posts but in version 2.6.01 i cant find the answer

cheers chris

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:03 am

Yes but they are unreliable. The best way to do it is to use the ranges (CIDR's).
You can enter them directly in a htaccess file or use Nuke Sentinels import IP2C to block ranges feature.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:30 am

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Yes but they are unreliable. The best way to do it is to use the ranges (CIDR's).
You can enter them directly in a htaccess file or use Nuke Sentinels import IP2C to block ranges feature.

where is the nuke sentinels import feature??? and again for some contries there are pages of ranges[/quote]

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:27 am

Hmm, this isn't as easy as it used to be.
Nuke Sentinel (tm) Administration area -> IP to Country Menu
IP2C Add Range
Select the country from the drop down then you can block them under the 'Functions' heading on each row.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:20 am

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Hmm, this isn't as easy as it used to be.
Nuke Sentinel (tm) Administration area -> IP to Country Menu
IP2C Add Range
Select the country from the drop down then you can block them under the 'Functions' heading on each row.

yes but if you do it the above way you have to do every range and some countries have pages of them, is there no easier way!!

cheers chris

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:38 am

Looking at my own installation, that is the only why that I can see. In previous versions you could just select the country and it was all done for you but this is something I had not realised had changed as I never have to use it.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

With rampant IP spoofing, I'd question the reasons for wanting to do this in the first place.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:06 pm

There are sooo many open proxies out there, banning a country is basically useless as you may wind up banning your own unknowingly.

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

Banning a country will only stop legitimate users from entering your site.You will never stop the dead shifties.

Worker Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 236

I have blocked Turkey through .htaccess and the code from this site. It is very easy.
http://blockacountry.com/index.php