From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_Lu=DFnig?= Subject: Re: Blocking Netranges Based on IP-to-Country CSV Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:06:10 +0200 Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <414EC7B2.5000904@bewegungsmelder.de> References: <7EACCDBB65D37443912D80713CC1245D02382B06@fsnsab20.losangeles.af.mil> <20040917114613.GP452@metastasis.org.uk> <1403218a0409190209416c12b9@mail.gmail.com> <20040919110111.GA706@metastasis.org.uk> <1403218a04091904173de016ea@mail.gmail.com> <3063e504091904456844d5cf@mail.gmail.com> <20040920115357.GE3786@metastasis.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040920115357.GE3786@metastasis.org.uk> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Nick Drage , netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Hi, i read some time the discussion about IP blocking based on Country. Also there are some postitive Arguments for this idee. I personly think that an include of this feature is - Extereme overload for IP-tables since it need extreme large table of ip lists - Is extreme faulty since IP's are not original assinged to country but locations like Europe. - Political / Programming aspects. The kernel and iptables contain technical part wich mean plock an port, ip , range based on time flages etc.. It never contained Localisation like different languages for error reports and never country based selections. - How you wan't to do the next step someone say i not wan't to select based on country bot wan't different web server for region's with different main language. ASIA -> UTF8/Chinese Europe Latin1/Frensh,German,English America => Spain/english there are many god ground for large selection map but NONE OF THEM is good enaught to include such maps in the kernel or iptables. Cu Thomas