Viewing Thread:
"IP banning a country?"

Anyone know how i would go about doing this? i need to ip block the whole Czech Republic.

thanks

Anyone know how i would go about doing this? i need to ip block the whole Czech Republic.

thanks

Block them from what? A website? There are tools you can download/buy which will tell you the originating country of an IP address, but I don't know what the integration with webservers etc is like.

From a internet connection, so they can't access a server.

Use .htaccess

Something along the lines of:


order allow,deny
deny from 123.345.678
allow from all


This would block users in the IP range 123.345.678.000 - 123.345.678.255
Obviously get it right or you could stop 'nice' visitors !
People could still bypass anyone block that relies on IP by using an anon proxy.

Lots of stuff on google...

Yeah .htaccess. I've been trying to look up what different parts of the IP address mean, but couldn't find much past "buy this software!".

yeah i wanted to know if a certain part of the number points to a country, alot of our czech players start with 213.*.*.*

Chippxero wrote:
> yeah i wanted to know if a certain part of the number points to a
> country, alot of our czech players start with 213.*.*.*

Careful don't narrow it down to just 213 as there are a lot of UK BT users that will be blocked !

I don't think you will ever manage to narrow it down efficiently using numbers like that. You'd really need to use IP tracing software.

We are thinking of just putting a english test in the regisration page, it's not perfect but will stop a few, if not have some ip detection software to block czech players.

I am the only uk person on the server at the moment.

thanks for the help guys.

Is this for a website or a games server?