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intri_ga · 10-22-2008, 11:24 AM

How does the company provide IP blocking?
Maybe someone has used this feature already?
Marblehost.com offers it in their plans and I'd like to know how they put it into practice.
Any ideas?

**recklessop** · 10-22-2008, 11:57 AM

i would image they could use their routers tp null route traffic.

I dont know how familure you are with IPTABLES but thats what i use on my linux machine to block ip addresses

google iptables null route ip or
black hole ip subnet or something similar

This only works on linux operating systems afaik

SiberForum · 10-23-2008, 06:46 AM

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How does the company provide IP blocking?

To have IP blocked it neede to be in the list. Ask them what list they are using to make sure.
You do not want them to block certain IPs, do you?

Rizy · 10-23-2008, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by intri_ga

How does the company provide IP blocking?
Maybe someone has used this feature already?
Marblehost.com offers it in their plans and I'd like to know how they put it into practice.
Any ideas?

Usually this kind of block is not server wide rather account level IP block, which is simply achieved by adding a deny in .htaccess for that IP. Web hosting control panels provide a gui to achieve this, like Cpanel provides a gui to block any IP for your account and in background an entry for block is being added in .htaccess.
But this is not a packet filtering level block , for that an IP must be added to what ever firewall iptables, afp , csf etc certain server is running, for shared hosting that can only be done by the host.

SiberForum · 11-13-2008, 06:42 AM

Yes that is possible if you know about IPs. But if you do not know them and want filter them by country you will need to have fresh DB of IPs

RH1 · 11-14-2008, 01:53 PM

Cpanel software allows you to add an IP to block that IP to get to your web site and services. If need be the company can add an IP to their firewall to block it entirely from the server.

talentedxoro · 12-13-2008, 06:08 AM

to have an access to admin panel!

shazim · 12-13-2008, 10:40 AM

ip tables can be used even whm and cpannel support ip blocking

RCAds · 12-14-2008, 12:02 PM

You can block IPs through your .htaccess file, as well, which is one of the easiest ways to do it. This can be a pain in the behind for blocking a large number of IPs but easy for just a few. There's a good tutorial on how to do this here: How To Block Bots, Ban IP Addresses With .htaccess

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