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Blocking countries: does it hurt the project?

Author: A.Markley (20 Feb 06 6:25am)

Couldn't find an answer in the FAQ... sorry if this is covered elsewhere.

We just thought of this tonight while reviewing our server setup. We have a working honeypot at our domain and everything seems fine.

We've blocked all access to our domain from several countries, including China, Korea, Taiwan, and other places where spam gangs (mostly in the good old USA, I should say) now host rogue sites with governments and ISPs that are more interested in dollars than ethics.

Does this hose our ability to nail harvesters from those countries? Does it prevent us from fully contributing to the success of the project? Thanks for your time and advice.

Re: Blocking countries: does it hurt the project?

Author: C.Lidderdale (26 Feb 06 11:31pm)

I don't know the ans to your question but I'm up to 30 entries in my iptables, IE:
iptables ... -s 220.0.0.0/8 -j DROP

My personal spam has dropped from 30 to 70 per day to under 4. If this could be done at the
shore line I think it would have a real affect. 16 mil IP's are worthless because a
few of your customers are spammers - I don't think so. Put the onus on the ISP that
can do something about the problem.