On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:46:13 +0100, Nick Drage <nickd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:33:03AM -0700, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote: > > > > why do this ? > > There's a good set of reasons on: > > http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ > > > seems a bit nasty in nature. > > Depends how you use the information. And to be honest considering the > reputation of some sources of traffic, such as Korea and South America, > which might be unlikely to have legitimate connections to your site, it > would be handy to block them all. > I don't like this reason at all, but let me agree with you temporarily. What if a client with good reputation "ie, from your country :-)" is spending his vacation in South America, and wanted to check something in your website ?? > > we dont even do this sort of thing? see email addy... > > But you're a worldwide organisation, and I think there's much more that > you can do with this than just block. For example, has anything figured > out a way to tie this into logging rules, it would great to see which > countries I'm being attacked from. > > -- > mors omnia vincit > > -- Mohamed Eldesoky www.eldesoky.net RHCE
