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From: Nick Drage <nickd@metastasis.org.uk>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Blocking Netranges Based on IP-to-Country CSV
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:01:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040919110111.GA706@metastasis.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403218a0409190209416c12b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

<snip>

> > 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 ??

Then don't reject packets according to country :)

-- 
mors omnia vincit


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-19 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 16:33 Blocking Netranges Based on IP-to-Country CSV Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
2004-09-17 11:46 ` Nick Drage
2004-09-18 13:25   ` Pascal Vilarem
2004-09-19 11:09     ` Nick Drage
2004-09-19 14:59       ` Alexis
2004-09-19  9:09   ` Mohamed Eldesoky
2004-09-19 11:01     ` Nick Drage [this message]
2004-09-19 11:17       ` Mohamed Eldesoky
2004-09-19 11:45         ` George Alexandru Dragoi
2004-09-20 11:53           ` Nick Drage
2004-09-20 12:06             ` Thomas Lußnig
2004-09-20 12:26               ` Chris Brenton
2004-09-20 13:20                 ` George Alexandru Dragoi
2004-09-20 12:16             ` Chris Brenton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-20 13:57 nutbrownhares
2004-09-20 14:09 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-09-20 14:10 ` Alexis
2004-09-17 20:16 Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
2004-09-20 11:57 ` Nick Drage
2004-09-15 23:41 Gary & Mic McFall
2004-09-16  0:54 ` Frank Gruellich
2004-09-15 12:57 McFall, Gary
2004-09-16 14:16 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic

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