htaccess blocking on a per country

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I discovered this somewhat recently...

http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/book/print/5

Its a list of all the IP codes around the world and to which physical country they belong. So I wrote a perl script to convert the CSV file and a set of named countries into a list of htaccess blocking codes. So I can block my website to people and proxies from a particular country.

I thought the link interesting enough to post - if you want the perl script then shout below. Its not extremely well tested but I dont appear to be having as much ukraine / latvian hacks since I added it. Though I am not known for posting code, I thought this one good to share if required and maybe if enough people took a more proactive filtering of their sites then maybe they would have less ability to hit them so much - wishful thinking I am sure !

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Just revisiting this in the wake of the jersey spam... You can download the latest IP to country conversions from here.

ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/delegated-arin-latest
ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/delegated-ripencc-latest
ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-latest
ftp.apnic.net/pub/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-latest
ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest

The format is documented in this ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/README

the apnic one being the most relevant I think

I am sure that this format is the same as the one I have a perl script to convert into Apache mod redirect regex code if required.