Re: [gentoo-user] preventing some IP's from from being logged in apache

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On 12/01/2021 17:11, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> I wish they design blocking by country easier.

Unfortunately, IPv4 in particular, blocking by country is pretty much 
impossible because - due  to demand pressure - addresses are scattered 
pretty much randomly.

Especially with class A or B addresses, they might belong to a 
multi-national and be scattered all over the world, subnets might have 
been sold off, the rich world has bought a lot of addresses from the 
poor world, hacks might originate in country A but be carried out from a 
hijacked system in country B. Etc etc.

All these protocols etc originated in a much kinder era, and aren't 
designed to withstand abuse.

Cheers,
Wol