So I am sitting here working on some filtering rules and I want to block an entire country. In this case, the most useless country to me on the Internet is the Russian Federation.
Nothing good comes from their networks, its all spam, hacks and baby porn. None of the companies I deal with have any business in Russia and non of them want to have any business with Russia.
The Russian Business Network is one giant security risk with no business benefits. Unlike the Chinese network where we actually have trade and communicate with everyday, Russia is useless.
So I have decided to filter their entire country out of all my servers. There is simply no need for them to be near us, and in doing so... roughly 70% of the malware communications will be instantly cut down.
Has anyone used http://www.blockacountry.com ? How accurate are those IP ranges? They have given me :
List made smaller to fit here.
Until Russia matures up a little and they develop a real government I am going to continue filtering them out, but right now its just FSB secret services and a myriad of cybercrime criminal cartels using the RBN.
Nothing good comes from their networks, its all spam, hacks and baby porn. None of the companies I deal with have any business in Russia and non of them want to have any business with Russia.
The Russian Business Network is one giant security risk with no business benefits. Unlike the Chinese network where we actually have trade and communicate with everyday, Russia is useless.
So I have decided to filter their entire country out of all my servers. There is simply no need for them to be near us, and in doing so... roughly 70% of the malware communications will be instantly cut down.
Has anyone used http://www.blockacountry.com ? How accurate are those IP ranges? They have given me :
Code:
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.blockacountry.com/blocked.php
<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 62.5.128.0/17
deny from 62.16.32.0/19
deny from 62.16.64.0/19
deny from 62.16.96.0/19
deny from 62.33.0.0/16
deny from 62.61.0.0/19
deny from 62.63.64.0/18
deny from 62.64.0.0/19
deny from 62.68.128.0/19
deny from 62.69.0.0/19
deny from 62.76.0.0/16
deny from 62.84.96.0/19
deny from 62.89.192.0/18
deny from 62.102.128.0/17
deny from 62.105.0.0/19
deny from 62.105.32.0/19
deny from 62.105.128.0/19
deny from 62.106.96.0/19
deny from 62.109.160.0/19
deny from 80.245.240.0/20
deny from 80.246.16.0/20
deny from 80.246.64.0/20
deny from 80.246.80.0/20
deny from 80.246.208.0/20
deny from 80.246.240.0/20
deny from 80.247.32.0/20
deny from 80.247.96.0/20
deny from 80.247.112.0/20
deny from 80.247.176.0/20
deny from 80.248.48.0/20
deny from 80.248.80.0/20
deny from 80.248.144.0/20
deny from 80.249.128.0/20
deny from 80.249.144.0/20
deny from 80.249.176.0/20
deny from 80.250.64.0/20
deny from 80.250.80.0/20
deny from 80.250.160.0/20
deny from 80.250.176.0/20
deny from 80.250.192.0/20
deny from 80.250.208.0/20
deny from 80.250.224.0/20
deny from 80.251.48.0/20
deny from 80.251.112.0/20
deny from 80.251.128.0/20
deny from 80.251.144.0/20
deny from 80.251.208.0/20
deny from 80.252.16.0/20
deny from 80.252.128.0/20
deny from 80.252.144.0/20
deny from 80.253.0.0/20
deny from 80.253.16.0/20
deny from 80.253.192.0/20
deny from 80.253.224.0/20
deny from 80.254.16.0/20
deny from 80.254.48.0/20
deny from 80.254.96.0/20
deny from 80.254.112.0/20
deny from 80.255.16.0/20
deny from 80.255.80.0/20
deny from 80.255.128.0/20
deny from 80.255.144.0/20
deny from 80.255.176.0/20
deny from 81.1.192.0/18
deny from 81.2.0.0/18
deny from 81.3.128.0/18
deny from 81.4.192.0/18
deny from 81.5.64.0/18
deny from 81.9.0.0/17
deny from 81.13.0.0/17
deny from 81.16.0.0/20
deny from 81.16.80.0/20
deny from 81.16.112.0/20
deny from 81.16.128.0/20
deny from 81.16.208.0/20
deny from 81.17.0.0/20
deny from 81.17.16.0/20
deny from 81.17.144.0/20
deny from 81.18.112.0/20
deny from 81.18.128.0/20
deny from 81.18.144.0/20
deny from 217.14.16.0/20
deny from 217.14.48.0/20
deny from 217.14.192.0/20
deny from 217.14.240.0/20
deny from 217.15.16.0/20
deny from 217.15.48.0/20
deny from 217.15.128.0/20
deny from 217.15.144.0/20
deny from 217.16.16.0/20
deny from 217.16.176.0/20
deny from 217.17.160.0/20
deny from 217.17.176.0/20
deny from 217.18.48.0/20
deny from 217.18.128.0/20
deny from 217.18.144.0/20
deny from 217.19.112.0/20
deny from 217.20.80.0/20
deny from 217.20.208.0/20
deny from 217.21.16.0/20
deny from 217.21.96.0/20
deny from 217.21.208.0/20
deny from 217.22.160.0/20
deny from 217.23.16.0/20
deny from 217.23.64.0/20
deny from 217.23.80.0/20
deny from 217.23.128.0/20
deny from 217.23.144.0/20
deny from 217.23.176.0/20
deny from 217.24.112.0/20
deny from 217.24.176.0/20
deny from 217.25.80.0/20
deny from 217.25.144.0/20
deny from 217.25.224.0/20
deny from 217.26.0.0/20
deny from 217.26.16.0/20
deny from 217.26.176.0/20
deny from 217.28.80.0/20
deny from 217.28.208.0/20
deny from 217.29.80.0/20
deny from 217.29.112.0/20
deny from 217.29.176.0/20
deny from 217.30.240.0/20
deny from 217.65.0.0/20
deny from 217.65.80.0/20
deny from 217.65.208.0/20
deny from 217.66.16.0/20
deny from 217.66.64.0/20
deny from 217.66.80.0/20
deny from 217.66.144.0/20
deny from 217.67.0.0/20
deny from 217.67.112.0/20
deny from 217.67.144.0/20
deny from 217.67.176.0/20
deny from 217.69.112.0/20
deny from 217.69.192.0/20
deny from 217.69.208.0/20
deny from 217.70.16.0/20
deny from 217.70.96.0/20
deny from 217.70.112.0/20
deny from 217.71.128.0/20
deny from 217.71.160.0/20
deny from 217.72.0.0/20
deny from 217.72.144.0/20
deny from 217.73.112.0/20
deny from 217.73.192.0/20
deny from 217.73.240.0/20
deny from 217.74.32.0/20
deny from 217.74.112.0/20
deny from 217.74.128.0/20
deny from 217.74.144.0/20
deny from 217.74.160.0/20
deny from 217.74.240.0/20
deny from 217.76.32.0/20
deny from 217.76.176.0/20
deny from 217.77.48.0/20
deny from 217.77.96.0/20
deny from 217.77.112.0/20
deny from 217.78.176.0/20
deny from 217.79.16.0/20
deny from 217.79.48.0/20
deny from 217.106.0.0/15
deny from 217.112.16.0/20
deny from 217.113.112.0/20
deny from 217.114.0.0/20
deny from 217.114.16.0/20
deny from 217.114.32.0/20
deny from 217.114.144.0/20
deny from 217.114.176.0/20
deny from 217.114.224.0/20
deny from 217.114.240.0/20
deny from 217.115.80.0/20
deny from 217.115.176.0/20
deny from 217.116.48.0/20
deny from 217.116.128.0/20
deny from 217.116.144.0/20
deny from 217.117.80.0/20
deny from 217.117.112.0/20
deny from 217.117.176.0/20
deny from 217.118.64.0/20
deny from 217.118.80.0/20
deny from 217.118.176.0/20
deny from 217.119.16.0/20
deny from 217.119.80.0/20
deny from 217.144.96.0/20
deny from 217.144.160.0/20
deny from 217.144.176.0/20
deny from 217.145.16.0/20
deny from 217.145.144.0/20
deny from 217.146.32.0/20
deny from 217.146.192.0/20
deny from 217.147.0.0/20
deny from 217.147.16.0/20
deny from 217.147.48.0/20
deny from 217.148.48.0/20
deny from 217.148.192.0/20
deny from 217.148.208.0/20
deny from 217.148.224.0/20
deny from 217.149.16.0/20
deny from 217.150.0.0/20
deny from 217.150.16.0/20
deny from 217.150.32.0/20
deny from 217.150.48.0/20
deny from 217.150.192.0/20
deny from 217.151.16.0/20
deny from 217.151.64.0/20
deny from 217.151.128.0/20
deny from 217.168.64.0/20
deny from 217.168.240.0/20
deny from 217.169.80.0/20
deny from 217.170.64.0/20
deny from 217.170.80.0/20
deny from 217.170.112.0/20
deny from 217.170.208.0/20
deny from 217.171.0.0/20
deny from 217.171.64.0/20
deny from 217.171.144.0/20
deny from 217.171.224.0/20
deny from 217.172.16.0/20
deny from 217.173.0.0/20
deny from 217.173.16.0/20
deny from 217.174.96.0/20
deny from 217.174.176.0/20
deny from 217.175.16.0/20
deny from 217.175.128.0/20
deny from 217.175.144.0/20
deny from 217.194.240.0/20
deny from 217.195.64.0/20
deny from 217.195.80.0/20
deny from 217.195.96.0/20
deny from 217.195.208.0/20
deny from 217.196.96.0/20
deny from 217.196.112.0/20
deny from 217.197.112.0/20
deny from 217.197.240.0/20
deny from 217.198.0.0/20
deny from 217.198.80.0/20
deny from 217.198.160.0/20
deny from 217.198.176.0/20
deny from 217.199.208.0/20
deny from 217.199.240.0/20
allow from all
</LIMIT>Until Russia matures up a little and they develop a real government I am going to continue filtering them out, but right now its just FSB secret services and a myriad of cybercrime criminal cartels using the RBN.
