Theo wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] [Off Topic]: IP Listings based on Country?' on Sun, Jan 23 at 09:47:
Sun, 23 Jan 2005, by rhugga@yahoo.com:
I have talked with engineers in the past that like to block all IP addresses from countries such as China for example in an effort to quall spam and other malicious activities. Where can these listings be found? I would like to block entire networks at our border router for countries we don't do any business with or have a need for them contacting us.
Your network, your rules, but how do you know that none of your regular customers has some sort of network connectivity in one of the countries you'd like to block, a webhost, dns or whatever?
Ask them. If you don't ask, they'll eventually let you know. In either case, you then make an exception, if needed. Any blacklist policy should allow for explicit exceptions. I've blocked korea for years, and no one here has noticed anything but less spam - including our employees in Japan. --Danny, hoping he's educated most of the users well enough to avoid most "social engineering" hacks