How Do I Ban All Foreign Countries From Viewing My Site?

[meissenation]

Don't mean to stir the pot from this thread, but to be blunt -- the turkish hacking ring that attacks my sites on a regular basis is annoying. Not to mention the foriegn spammers that register on my site just to spam their porno gambling websites. My site is a regional site to Michigan, United States so I don't see any reason why anyone from any other country would need to register. Is there a way to block all foriegn IP addresses that resolve to another country from registering/accessing my vBulletin website?

Also, is there a way to ban based on their email address? I noticed the turkish hackers usually use hotmail.(country domain) instead of regular hotmail.com, etc. While I know either of these cases wouldn't stop all of the hacking activity, it would definitely stop a lot of it.

[akanevsky]

By closing down your site.

[meissenation]

It can't be that hard to do -- most IPs resolve to specific ISPs and such and can be resolved to a location. There's programs that will take an IP address and show you an aerial map of the neighborhood that IP address is coming from. All it'd have to do is figure out if the IP resolves to a square box around the US and if not, ban. Ah well, was just hoping there was something available, I see entirely no reason for anyone outside of the US to be browsing my site in the first place.

[Asi9ine]

You could:

- Use aggressive email banning
- Set up new user moderation
- Report the offending IP's
- Set up a forum mask so it seems that the place has been perm-closed; only banned members could see. All it would take is to change the relevant phrase.

Good luck.

[UltimateOreo!]

Well, ban an entire subnet, most countries have the same subnet, thats how other sites do it.

[Q-v-n-s-Q]

try htaccess

[SaN-DeeP]

.htaccess is the only solution to disallow other sites/users accessing your site, do you have a list of IP Address, host masks for your country alteast ?

[Distance]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

By closing down your site.

lol agreed

[Silver_2000_)!]

If you look you can find a ip blocking program that will let you pick the country's and add them by specifc IPs to your iptables deny

http://fixingtheweb.com/

It will block them from the entire server - If you have that level of access

[meissenation]

Have been flooded recently with foreign spammers that register on my site and then don't do anything. They don't even come back to spam their post, but it's frustrating none the less. I also got hit hard by some hacker that found a hole in my server and uploaded a Bank of America phishing site to my server which then caused it to be shut down for 20 hours. I'm definitely going to try this fixtheweb.com solution.