Originally Posted by AdjusterGuru (Post 2478843)

Thanks Hostboard, I will experiment with that once I go live with the forum. I am on a linux server. How often would it be suggested to update that list?

Question, it looks like the list is a list of ip addresses within each country to block.

Is there a way to block the entire country? Or is there a way to only allow USA visitors in the htaccess file?

FYI, theWordPress plugin "IQ-Block-Country" uses a GeoIP.dat file. I am wondering if that is a list of IP addresses like in your file, but I was unable to open it with MS Office, Visual Studio, DreamWeaver and other programs. Do you know of any free programs to view a .dat file with? (I was unable to upload it with this post).

Thanks again so much!

Originally Posted by Hostboard (Post 2479287)

If you remove the hash tag in front of the word deny under each countries entry you essentially will block that country. Remember this is not fool proof as open proxies are a dime a dozen and there are even other ways to circumvent this method of blocking. But at least it is something...