Block entire countries with IP2C?

New Member Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 2

Is there a way to block entire countries in IP2C without adding each range for that country one by one?

I know the concept of banning by whole country might sound harsh, but this is for a small personal website that only myself and my immediate family need access to.

I'm not saying hackers from another country are more likely to deface my site than from my own, but like I said only my family will view it and they do not travel. Also I'm confident that reporting abuse against hackers in my own country would actually be worthwhile.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:27 am

With 2.2.0, which is in testing, you will be able to do just that. Goto [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] and tour around to see the new import system.

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:03 pm

Wow, once again you amaze me Bob Smile

This is a great addition to Sentinel!

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:13 am

I am needing to upgrade my Sentinel installalation... any idea how much longer it will be before 2.2.0 is available? If it is going to be a while I will just upgrade to the most current version.

Also... I host a site that is location specific (the state of Texas). I frequently get people from Brazil and a few other Countries that try to join (even though my TOS states you must be from Texas), will the IP2C add on give the ability to block all countries outside of the United States?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:39 pm

2.2.0 was released today Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:39 pm

I didn't see a way to ban entire countries without manually banning each set of ranges.... am I overlooking it?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:32 pm

goto [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] and there you can either "Import to Blocked Ranges" or "Import to IP2Country". The first is the link to block out entire countries by importing the data into the "Blocked Ranges" table.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:25 am

Ok, got that resolved but now the Forum Admin page is returned blank. I have rechecked everything but do not see where the function is breaking down. Any suggestions?

Worker Joined: Aug 06, 2004 Posts: 192

Make sure you all the $forum_admin's are replaced with (defined('FORUM_ADMIN')).

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:38 am

Curtis,

Are you using Patched 2.9 on your site? If not referer to [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

New Member Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 7

Greetings,

I have a couple of questions.

1. When you import the Country Ranges into IPC2 you are not in fact actually blocking them right away but storing their IP ranges for future use correct?

2. How do you unblock a country if it was blocked by accident?

I just installed NukeSentinel and like it but want to be sure that I do not mess things up by importing the ranges and have them blocked right of the bat.

Regards,

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:20 pm

Bob Marion will have to answer number one

Number two: Go to the blocked ranges menu and clear the range that you blocked by accident.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:30 pm

Greetings,

Thank you Curtis for the reply, I look forward to hearing from Bob Marion...

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:31 pm

Did my reply help you with the removing banned countries?

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:12 am

1) Importing the country data into the IP 2 Country table does NOT block countries it in fact activates the system for tracking what visitor came from what country.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:32 pm

Thank you Curtis and Bob yes both of you helped me out..

Regards,

New Member Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 15

Is there a way to block a whole country at once rather then having to click on each c2 range?

New Member Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Posts: 22

yes i'm quite curious about this as well. I am currently hosting a site for a gaming clan, and there are a lot of people from Turkey, Germany who hack everyone they can find in the game, and i'd rather just block them from being able to get to my site at all since all the members are within the states.
Is there anyway to do this?

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:08 pm

Yes, just import the countries you wish to block into banned ranges.

Nuke ACP -> Sentinel -> Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:24 pm

CurtisH wrote:

Yes, just import the countries you wish to block into banned ranges.

Nuke ACP -> Sentinel -> Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges

Thanks CurtisH, I actually figured it out sometime back

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:54 pm

Hmmm, ok when i do that, it takes me the country listing, and then when i click on them it just says ok or whatever, but is it actually blocking them? because i don't see the ip's listed as blocked.

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:30 pm

When I view this section Sentinel -> Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges I get no listings to block.

What am I doing wrong? I'm getting comment spammers from key countries and want to block 'em.

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:34 am

Although I have not tried to do it yet, it looks like you can do this through the "IP2C Range Listing" within the IP to Country administration?

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:37 am

the method here i BELIEVE....im no expert but i believe this method REQUIRES that u have the files listed under yoursite.com/Import folder

if u have nothing there...this method will give u an empty text box

If its there and u see the countries..click each contry and it will update that country based on those files.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:37 am

Thx montego, but that method I'm aware of. But is there a way to do all the IP ranges for a whole country. For example russia has 24 pages of IP ranges and it would be nearly impossible to have click each individual range.

What files do you speak of darklord, I don't quite get which ones you mean.