> > Hi Rodney,
> >
> > > I am having a lot of them also
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > Also a lot of probes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] against all boxes in my
> > network, regardless if they have MX entries or not, or regardless
> > if they run
> > SMTP or not. I'm blocking half of Korea by now and it's still
> > coming in every
> > other week - on a new IP and in a different subnet.
> >
> > --
> >
> > With best regards,
> >
> > Michael Stauber
>
> Oh so it isnt just me then.......!
>
> This is good http://www.kgsoft.com/products/iprange2cidr/
> If you put in an IP range from something like Neotrace it breaks it down
> into nice little chunks for insertion onto the deny file -
> seriously easier
> than trying to install and run the perl CIDR module by hand!
>
> Doesn't a proper list exist somewhere that you can get every allocated IP
> address block of these places from.
> Personally I'd block everywhere apart from Europe, Australia and North
> America given the chance.
> I doubt any of my customers would notice the difference.
>
> Hmmmm..... If I had a list of IP blocks and a list of countries I could
> rattle up a PHP/MySQL script where it could give a cut and paste directly
> into the deny file.

Answering my own emails now......

Found a comprehensive IP to country list on
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ updated monthly in .csv - should be
able to look at the headers and see if its changed in a cron job and have it
wget and unzip.
Only 520KB as a zip file as well, 3.2Mb uncompressed, probably don't need
the full names data in that table repetitively, that can be cross processed
into a different table.

Should be able to derive a countries list and generate a form that allows /
denies access then gives something to feed into Sendmail

Might have a play with this at the weekend if I get a chance!

Any feedback as to if this is worth doing appreciated - but one thing that
comes to mind, which may be beyond me is do - any of the BQ developers fancy
intergrating the PHP behind this into the GUI? Seems that it would be rather
nice to have a section in there which allowed / denied server or email
access by entire country, based upon some of the recent posts on the list!

Regards,

Phil Beynon
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