In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 29/07/2019 03:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:
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This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.* This is something that
most all servers should.* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in
the logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or
less) the* internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc.
TLDs predominate,* but I do continue to be surprised that people
aren't _proud_ to use a* .us address.

Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather
than IP addresses?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I
know nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering.

Not me. Someone lese.

[I never said it was you - if you count ""s, you'll see I was replying
to the person posting as "Carlos E.R. ".]

How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway?

whois lookup on various ip ranges will reveal who issued them and to whom


e.g.
$whois 5.5.5.5
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This shows a block of IP addresses issued by RIPE to a German ISP

Yes, but that doesn't answer my question "How would you know which IP
addresses are any given country" - being able to look up which country a
given IP is in (even assuming the whois return includes that datum)
doesn't tell you which IP addresses are in a given country; it tells you
(or might) which country a given IP address is in, which isn't the same
thing!

Or https://lite.ip2location.com/russian...address-ranges


will for example list exhastively ALL ip ranges belonging to Russisn
organisations and ISPs


Now that's a closer answer. I see https://lite.ip2location.com/ has
(bottom right of page) a list of countries, though I didn't investigate
it.

Just looking at the russian-federation list linked to above, it's a very
long and bitty list; your "ipset" must work hard blocking all those,
plus the other countries you mention. (By "your" I mean whichever poster
said they were doing that.)
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