Thanks Matthew - i see what you saying. But this service won't return any results if there's no reverse dns. I found this ones - i don't know - is here anybody using it? http://geo-ip.com/ http://where-is.info/
I guess that second ling using the perl script from the first link. Thanks. Daniel Mester. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Mester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Block ip access from whole region (or country) > Daniel, > > IPs are not assigned by country. > > IP assignments are to AS numbers and done by one of the assignment bodies (eg > RIPE for Europe). > > A network provider (incl ISP) will either have their own AS number and their > own assignment window, or will get an assignment from their upstream provider. > > I know a number of European providers who have an American AS number and > American assignemnts. > > Most Big European providers use one AS number for all of Europe (and a good > thing to do). > > If you are interested in where an IP comes from, the first place to look is > the appropriate registry that gave the assigmnet window. In Europe, 99.99% > will be from RIPE. Check out www.ripe.net and use the whois database and look > for, say > -L 62.219.162.35 > This shows that the IP is part of the assigmnet BEZEQINT-ADSL (Fixed ADSL IPs) > on AS number AS8551, country IL. > AS8551 is Bezeq International. > > Country IL is Israel, so there is a good chance this IP is in Israel. > > > Regards > > Matthew > > > > Daniel Mester wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > i was just wondering is there any service that i can use to block users from > > some regions - i mean if i do know user's ip address (i guess it is not > > faked one or proxied) can i use some service that will approve that user > > comes from region (or country) he is saying so? And further - can i block > > users access from specified countries by ip blocks? Anything like that? > > Thanks a lot. > > Daniel. > > _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
