XF 2.2 I.P. Addresses

[Ben44]

Excuse the probably easy question for others but things get a bit hard when you're in you're 80s.

Does an IP address entered into the banned as, (example), 1.1.* block all IP addresses starting with 1.1. ?

 

[Paul B]

Yes - don't do that.

 

[Ben44]

Yes - don't do that.

Why?

 

[Paul B]

Because you will be banning thousands of IP addresses indiscriminately.

 

[Seeker-Smith]

You'd be blocking a huge portion of the world.

 

[Ben44]

I was thinking mainly of Russian IPs, I can do those can't I ?

 

[ehd]

Russian Federation IP Address Ranges

Complete list of IP address ranges in Russian Federation. The data source is IP2Location DB1 LITE database.

lite.ip2location.com

Plenty of them...

Or use Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/ip-access-rules/parameters/

But Enterprise plans start at some k for one month.

Notes about country blocking

• Block by country is only available on Enterprise plans.

 

[Ben44]

Thank you all so much. One thing to keep in mind - it's crap being old.

 

[Rhody]

You can block countries in many ways, although they could still use a proxy to get around showing their real IP. We use this add-on from XF2 (Andy)

Country access check​

Blocks access to Contact us, Log in and Register pages from specified countries.
Developer: XF2 Addons