China/Taiwan IP Spam!

palmettostar · June 13th, 2008, 10:35 AM

A few weeks ago, I noticed an odd referring link in my stats page and so I decided to check it out. I realized that they were hotlinking to a file on my server and immediately setup hotlinking protection to break the link as well as redirecting the actual folder so they couldn't access the files that way.

This, however, hasn't stopped the spamming from the "spiders/bots" that have been crawling my site from those links. All the IP's are coming from China and Taiwan, and blocking the ones I noticed the most via Control Panel did nothing because well...the IPs change.

Is there any way I can just block the entire country? And if so, how do I go about doing that!

**DewKnight** · June 13th, 2008, 12:49 PM

I can't help there, I just thought it was funny that you want to block china from seeing your website. Usually it's the other way around, china likes to block anybody from seeing many websites in that country

**removed** · June 13th, 2008, 2:43 PM

Where are the requests going to? Is this traffic going to a Topsite script by any chance?

dheeruyadav · June 14th, 2008, 4:57 AM

there is no way to block the entire country...this may be possible for your country to block some particular website but not for you as an individual.

**Twist3d** · June 14th, 2008, 3:23 PM

Yeah block China!!! I wish it was totally possible anyways.

**MarkRH** · June 14th, 2008, 4:44 PM

I guess if you can figure out some IP ranges that came from China you could deny those ranges in your .htaccess file. I'm not sure if Countries are bound to IP ranges.. but they must be somewhat otherwise AWStats wouldn't have its Country break-down.

Hmmm... found this site: IP Range - Ip Address Range Lookup - Ip Range Finder

Choose whatever country from the drop-down to get it's list of IP ranges.

June 13th, 2008, 10:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
palmettostar Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Jun 2006 28 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 0 times	China/Taiwan IP Spam! A few weeks ago, I noticed an odd referring link in my stats page and so I decided to check it out. I realized that they were hotlinking to a file on my server and immediately setup hotlinking protection to break the link as well as redirecting the actual folder so they couldn't access the files that way. This, however, hasn't stopped the spamming from the "spiders/bots" that have been crawling my site from those links. All the IP's are coming from China and Taiwan, and blocking the ones I noticed the most via Control Panel did nothing because well...the IPs change. Is there any way I can just block the entire country? And if so, how do I go about doing that!

June 13th, 2008, 12:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,725 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	I can't help there, I just thought it was funny that you want to block china from seeing your website. Usually it's the other way around, china likes to block anybody from seeing many websites in that country __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

June 13th, 2008, 2:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
removed Surpass Abuse Admin Super #1 Joined in Mar 2005 Lives in Houston, TX Hosted on NONE 7,794 posts Gave thanks: 10 Thanked 277 times	Where are the requests going to? Is this traffic going to a Topsite script by any chance? __________________ Unofficial IRC Channel: #surpass EFNet Unofficial = No official support. Support requests can be submitted to our helpdesk.

June 14th, 2008, 3:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
Twist3d Twist3d One Super #1 Joined in Dec 2007 Hosted on pass81 1,375 posts Gave thanks: 20 Thanked 31 times	Yeah block China!!! I wish it was totally possible anyways. __________________ Pass81

June 14th, 2008, 4:44 PM	#6 (permalink)
MarkRH Race Surpass Super #1 Joined in Jul 2006 Lives in Oklahoma City, OK Hosted on sh102 1,219 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 86 times	I guess if you can figure out some IP ranges that came from China you could deny those ranges in your .htaccess file. I'm not sure if Countries are bound to IP ranges.. but they must be somewhat otherwise AWStats wouldn't have its Country break-down. Hmmm... found this site: IP Range - Ip Address Range Lookup - Ip Range Finder Choose whatever country from the drop-down to get it's list of IP ranges. __________________ SH102 : Mark Headrick - Blog - Gallery Pelicar \| Company of Valor \| Mysstie Wolfestar

June 14th, 2008, 4:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
dheeruyadav Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Jun 2008 5 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	there is no way to block the entire country...this may be possible for your country to block some particular website but not for you as an individual.

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