Comments on: Block IP Addresses by Country

By: Dmitry Dulepov

Dmitry Dulepov — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:30:18 +0000

You can do that also with mod_security to really block by country. Typical rule:

SecRule REQUEST_URI “.*” “chain,drop,logdata:’Country is: %{geo.country_code} (%{geo.city})’”
SecRule REMOTE_ADDR “@geoLookup” “chain”
SecRule GEO:COUNTRY_CODE “@pm A1 AP BR CN RU”

The first two country codes are special: anonymous proxies, etc.

By: Delerium

Delerium — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:29:09 +0000

I disagree with Dawn Young, merely on the fact that IP2Location will only give 1 country per listing anonymously, and 30 per country if you register with them. As I hate registering for a site just to use something one time, I find the others much more user friendly, even if they aren’t up to date. Likewise another solution would be to make a php script that checked the country of the IP address visiting, and banned accordingly. It could even create a log of IP ranges for you to put into htaccess.

By: Dawn Young

Dawn Young — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:40:49 +0000

Besides IPDeny, Block a Country and Country IP Blocks, IP2Location also offers the free blocking service.

http://www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx

I personally prefer IP2Location because they have more up-to-date IP Country Database.

Just my personal opinion.