How to save your proxy from Iran.

Iran is notorious for leaching bandwidth from proxy sites... This copy and paste the code below into your .HTACCESS file in order to block Iranian IPs from using your proxy servers...

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 62.60.128.0/17
deny from 62.193.0.0/19
deny from 62.217.64.0/18
deny from 62.220.96.0/19
deny from 77.237.64.0/19
deny from 77.237.160.0/19
deny from 80.66.176.0/20
deny from 80.71.112.0/20
deny from 80.75.0.0/20
deny from 80.82.224.0/20
deny from 80.191.0.0/16
deny from 80.242.0.0/20
deny from 80.242.16.0/20
deny from 80.253.128.0/20
deny from 80.253.144.0/20
deny from 81.12.0.0/17
deny from 81.23.160.0/20
deny from 81.28.32.0/20
deny from 81.28.48.0/20
deny from 81.31.160.0/20
deny from 81.31.176.0/20
deny from 81.90.144.0/20
deny from 81.91.128.0/20
deny from 81.91.144.0/20
deny from 81.93.32.0/20
deny from 82.99.192.0/18
deny from 82.115.0.0/19
deny from 82.132.0.0/17
deny from 83.169.0.0/18
deny from 84.47.192.0/18
deny from 84.241.0.0/18
deny from 85.9.64.0/18
deny from 85.15.0.0/18
deny from 85.133.128.0/17
deny from 85.185.0.0/16
deny from 85.198.0.0/18
deny from 86.109.32.0/19
deny from 87.107.0.0/16
deny from 87.247.160.0/19
deny from 89.144.128.0/18
deny from 89.165.0.0/17
deny from 89.221.80.0/20
deny from 89.235.64.0/18
deny from 91.98.0.0/15
deny from 91.184.64.0/19
deny from 91.186.192.0/19
deny from 193.189.122.0/23
deny from 194.165.0.0/19
deny from 194.225.0.0/16
deny from 195.146.32.0/19
deny from 213.155.32.0/19
deny from 213.165.96.0/19
deny from 213.176.0.0/19
deny from 213.176.32.0/19
deny from 213.176.64.0/18
deny from 213.207.192.0/18
deny from 213.217.32.0/19
deny from 213.233.160.0/19
deny from 217.11.16.0/20
deny from 217.24.144.0/20
deny from 217.25.48.0/20
deny from 217.66.192.0/20
deny from 217.66.208.0/20
deny from 217.116.208.0/20
deny from 217.146.208.0/20
deny from 217.172.96.0/19
deny from 217.174.16.0/20
deny from 217.218.0.0/15

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Very helpful thread thanks exponent

 

No problem. I created it so others wouldnt have to spend the time searching for IP ranges and creating the file. Plus, I must admit.. I feel slightly vindicated by blocking these IPs. I gave the ranges a chance and it lead to 0 conversions and a huge bandwidth issue. Based on site analysis, I guess they'll have to use another proxy for camel pr0n =) *sarcasm*

I sincerely hope no Iranian DP users find this offensive. Its not personal, its just me dealing with proxy abusers.

-Steven
TheEvader.com

 

Iran uses a lot of traffic, but they also click on ads.

 

yeah they use lots of bw but at the same time they click ads so I'll leave them

 

it's not about the bandwidth but it's with the cpu resources

 

y do iranians use up so much traffic? wots so special?

 

its not the traffic thats the issue, its how they use it. Their well know for abusing proxies.

 

What exactly for?

 

I actualy find Russia to be more of a threat to my proxys. :0) There is a Marketing firm there that does the Europe Soccer and they cause more problems from what I find. I lost a server due to that group.

 

What do I care what websites Iranians go to? As long as they click on my ads.

 

Bingo! I think china vistors is causing more problems as they do heavy hotlinking,leeching.

 

Well you could think of it in a different way, Adsense wants visitors that convert and obviously Iranian, Chinese and Russian visitors wont. Most traffic from these locations arent interested in the ads, leading to smart-pricing and decreased profit. I have hotlinking protection and dont block these areas on my proxies but it is really worthless traffic.

 

They probably don't want to be executed for visiting secular web sites.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

 

For me, Iran uses much lesser bandwidth than what China and USA do. And I don't see why you should block the people of a country for using up your bandwidth? After all, they click your ads, they bring in a major part of the traffic to your proxy.

 

nice share. blocking the iran IP's is a good idea as they are know for leaching from proxy site's

 

Blocking IP's from a proxy is a pretty short-sighted thing to do.

Would it not be much smarter to ensure that nobody can hotlink, and when they try, you re-direct them back to your proxy home page?

I have written a custom script to do exactly this, and I have deployed it onto only 1 proxy at the moment. I just need a few days to see how effective it is.

 

I open up my site for Iranians for 2 days every other 2 days. I'm using YPN so I dont get anything when they click.

 

Would you mind sharing the script you use to redirect them back to your site? Im getting beat up by people mirroring or copying my site. Adsense went from $50 a month and growing to hardly nothing. Any help is appreaciated.

 

Well you guys should think about China traffic. they are useless.. i dont have proxies right now but i had my dedicated server so we used to get alot of china traffic which is worth for nothing.. so if guys want to block taffic go for china.