How to block china traffic using .htaccess?

Hello

I know how to block IP's threw .htaccess but how do i block a specific country?

I really need to block china traffic , since they are always up to no good, and steal bandwidth etc!

Thanks

Tyler

 

you have to use php or some other languages. ther are some free scripts that return a country for each ip (more or less accurate).
or search gogle for "ip to country", there are also some paid services.

 

Try adding this to your .htaccess file:

order deny,allow 
deny from .ca 

Code (markup):

This is the easiest way to do it...

 

.ca is a canadian domain, to block china, you should use .cn

 

Yea i dont want to block my own country! lol

Ok i will try the .cn, i dont see how that would block it.. Since they dont login threw my domains with .cn lol

i think it will have to be with IP's

Tyler

 

Blocking a country is often a bad idea. Your reasoning behind it here seems pretty dumb to me.

 

How is my reasoning behind it dumb, all ip's from china are stealing bandwidth like crazy, hotlinking etc. And spam using my proxies doing illegal stuff etc, seems actually smart to block them so i dont get in trouble for my servers being used in illegal activities...


Tyler

 

Fair enough banning the IP's doing that, but banning a country because of some of it's members?

 

99% of China's ip address's are up to no good, and china traffic is useless in good pay per click etc, whats the positive? lol


Tyler

 

You need GeoIP, google it

 

yeah have the same experience with china traffic. so far i had 1 person from china who made a usefull comment, and about ~300 spam attemps from china or for some .cn domains (full of spam) until i blocked them.

 

ive blocked china in my image host, it really took the host down before that.

 

Yeah sorry! .cn is china.

 

I have found this extremely helpful for this:

http://www.countryipblocks.net/

Just choose the countries you want to block and it gives you the IPs.

 

try this
it 's really great tool

http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip

 

http://www.blockacountry.com/

Like 87Lakers proposed, choose the country here and it creates a htaccess for you

 

thanks for the script.

this site http://www.countryipblocks.net/ is really great, i tried it. It block many ip from china

 

There are several options you have to block specific countries. At Country IP Blocks we currently offer seven different format options for country ip data, including .htaccess.

Before you begin blocking countries at random I would suggest you develop a plan. Where do you want your traffic to come from? If you plan on denying a specific country or countries why do you want to do so? Log all your traffic and identify the problem areas.

Denying a country using .htaccess with an extension like .cn is extremely ineffective as malicious traffic is often coming from IP ranges as opposed to top-level domains like .cn.

As a side note, Country IP Blocks has a Top Ten List of Malicious traffic origins. The current breakdown is:

1.) China
2.) Brazil
3.) Russia
4.) India
5.) Korea
6.) Viet Nam
7.) Ukraine
8.) Turkey
9.) Italy
10.) Argentina

This list updates every few weeks, but China has been at the top for months. Based on our latest data, these countries account for 78.7% of malicious traffic worldwide.

 

Though it is a fact, I have to say Chinese people are not that bad as you think. Most of them are kind hearted.

 

Yes, most are very kind.

However if you do not sell to China, or other places, and they are far far away, then why not block the IP range?
It cuts down risk of being attacked, and saves bandwidth and server load, making the internet faster in general

Plus I am sure alot of companys may wish to aline with Government policy on certain countries and just dont want anything to do with them.

We however use a blocklist tailered from previous attacks over the last 10years.

Our list...

China, Algeria, Argentina, Vietnam, Zambabwe, Uganda, Serbia, Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Congo and CongoDr.
Again we don't really just tar a country because of one person, but we asked ourselves the question, do we need those countrys to find us? and the answer was no.