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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: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:53:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040920115357.GE3786@metastasis.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3063e504091904456844d5cf@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:45:48PM +0300, George Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
> Good point, not to mention disliking a country sounds so nazi :D

It does, but its not.

> So, whats the reason is banning some countryes?

Why not?  Don't you effectively ban huge ranges of IP addresses, and
therefore countries, every time you restrict access to a host?  Imagine
I'm going travelling, and I know I'm only going to South America, so I
want to open up my ssh daemon to more addresses.  However I don't want
to permit the entire Internet to have a go at the daemon, but I'm
willing to open it up to South America to increase the risk slightly
in return for permitting myself SSH access wherever I am.

I must admit I'm a little worried that everyone is thinking that this
will be used to prevent access by certain countries for nefarious /
racist reasons when there are so many useful applications.

-- 
mors omnia vincit


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20 11:53 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
2004-09-19 11:17       ` Mohamed Eldesoky
2004-09-19 11:45         ` George Alexandru Dragoi
2004-09-20 11:53           ` Nick Drage [this message]
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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