David Pratt wrote: > Hi Tim. I think what Jens has to say is the best solution. I have also > made my own thing with zope as well since I don't always have control > of the firewall.
Yes, this is the problem I have. I'm hosted on zettai, so am a little limited in the options available to me (I believe). Zettai have said they will have a solution in place within 2-3 months, but I'd really like to sort something out in the meantime. > I worked out a simple ip and country-ip solution. I > made a simple interface for adding ips to a black list or selecting > countries to add to black list. The logic makes a final connection to > my main site template so ips in black list or ip turning out to be from > a black listed country get nothing but an empty page (including an > empty page header) while those that I want to view my site will get > rendered pages. I use a county-ip database that gets updated once per > week (about 50,000 records) representing ranges from all countries. Blimey, 50,000 records sounds pretty heavy (for my purposes)! As far as I can tell, there are two or three IP addresses producing all of these pesky requests. Do you have code that you can share? Tim _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
