RE: Country blocking?

[Cilin <cilin5 () yahoo com>]

You can check out the Ip-to-country database at
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info. It isn't perfect
but at least there is the hope of update in the near
future. 

If you use it to preemptively block IPs, then you
should consider the chance of blocking someone on
accident. But this is a risk you take with any
non-perfect database. I tried searching for a free and
complete mapping but couldn't find one. If anyone
knows of a flawless free/paid database please let me
know.


-Vents

--- "Donofrio, Lewis" <donofrio () umich edu> wrote:

> Anything from RIPE.NET could be blocked as far as I
> can tell....
>
> --just my 2 cents.
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> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
> [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On
> Behalf Of Alex Kirk
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: mdpeters
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Country blocking?
>
> That's probably a task that's better suited for your
> firewall, if you're
> just dropping all connections from a country,
> irrespective of what they
> contain.
>
> That being said, though, it can be difficult to
> block based on
> geographic region, let alone a specific country. IP
> address ranges are
> somewhat fluid, and geolocation is still an inexact
> science. Unless I'm
> unaware of some new technology out there, chances
> are good that your
> attempt to block by country will result in some
> connections from it
> still getting through, along with the blocking of
> some things that
> aren't from that country -- especially since there's
> nothing in most
> packets that associate them with a specific country.
> I mean, it's not
> like you could to try to use Snort to block anything
> that contained the
> Chinese character set, since you'd miss messages
> coming from China in
> English, but zap messages in Chinese from, say,
> Cambodia, Vietnam, or
> even America. It gets worse when dealing with
> straight TCP/IP -- you
> wouldn't even have that kind of a clue.
>
> If anyone else has a solution to this, I'm all ears,
> but I have a
> feeling you're out of luck here.
>
> Alex Kirk
> Research Analyst
> Sourcefire, Inc.
>
> > Could anyone advise me on how to block a large IP
> address space using 
> > Snort-inline? For example, I would like to drop
> all connections 
> > originating from China.
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