I want to say this is a premature optimization with a lot of problems. What if people in the US are travelling abroad and want to access your site? Most websites today have the problem of having the opposite problem of too few visits, not having too many.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, J <[email protected]> wrote: > May I revise that "perfect for our needs" remark? > > We are creating a service focused on US education and thus will not be > useful to anyone outside the US. We want people in the US to be able > to register for free. But since non-US folks wouldn't get any benefit > from the service, I'd just as soon not even let them reach my web site > -- why add to my server load? > > It was perfect until I realized that to blacklist every country except > the US would take about 100,000 entries, a lot more than the 100-entry > limit of the dos.yaml file. I guess I will need to do that > verification inside my application. > > Any other ideas? > > On Mar 31, 2:35 pm, J <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. This is perfect for our needs. > > > > On Mar 31, 12:58 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi J, > > > > > The recently released DoS API is designed for just this: > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/dos.html > > > > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:50 PM, J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am looking to restrict my web site and deny access from a set of IP > > > > addresses, much like the Apache mod_access module does. > > > > > > Would have expected to be able to specify it in app.yaml somehow > (GAE/ > > > > Python). Any suggestions welcome. > > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]><google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > [email protected]> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland > Ltd. :: > > > Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 > > > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration > Number: > > > 368047 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
