Obviously you are not considering people using "proxies" get around IP subnets. I would recommend the use of fail2ban and other tools like that to block them on a per case basis, rather than blocking the whole country off.
Since this is not an ethics list, I will leave this discussion here. The web is about freedom of information. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <li...@itech7.com> wrote: > On 04/10/10 13:53, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: >> >> Hi Nilesh, >> >> Deny and Allow option override can be globally configured as such >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride >> >> I was wondering how and more importantly WHY you plan to block users >> from particular countries? >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<li...@itech7.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have installed mod_geoip. >>> >>> Now I want block Chinese and Russian visitors which should not overridden >>> in >>> .htaccess >>> >>> I.e. The Deny directive should work globally and should not be overridden >>> by >>> any other 'Allow from All' directives. >>> >>> Is this possible or I have to configure this in every .htaccess ? >>> >>> -- >>> Nilesh Govindarajan >>> Site& Server Administrator >>> www.itech7.com >>> मेरा भारत महान ! >>> मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server >>> Project. >>> See<URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> > > Chinese and Russians were creating nuisance on my site, so wanted to block > them all. I did it using ipset. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > Site & Server Administrator > www.itech7.com > मेरा भारत महान ! > मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > -- "The secret impresses no-one, the trick you use it for is everything" - Alfred Borden (The Prestiege) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
