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Q: Can I block my IP address from appearing in certain counries? ( No Answer,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Can I block my IP address from appearing in certain counries?
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: erwinrupert-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 11 Nov 2004 09:41 PST
Expires: 11 Dec 2004 09:41 PST
Question ID: 427603
Can I block my IP address from appearing in ceratin countries whom I
bleiev are abusing my site; these are Moslem competitors, from Moslem
countries, who use the services of websites in India and China to
abuse my site.

Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 11 Nov 2004 15:18 PST
Hello Erwinrupert,

I cannot quite understand the situation you are describing and the
situation you want to implement. Is the following a correct
interpretation of your question?

 - You are getting a lot of unwanted traffic from systems in India and
China (and not from systems in other countries).
 - You want to block or ignore the unwanted traffic or otherwise make
it so that those systems cannot send you unwanted traffic.

It may be also helpful to describe the amount and type of unwanted
traffic and your internet service provider.

If my interpretation is correct, I can suggest several alternatives to
solve your problems. If not, please clarify the question.
  --Maniac

Clarification of Question by erwinrupert-ga on 12 Nov 2004 08:07 PST
Hello Maniac-ga, Thanks for your quick response and effort.  Yes, I
would like to block a few Moslem countries from having any access to
my site as well as their servers who are in India and China.   How can
this be done?.

Clarification of Question by erwinrupert-ga on 12 Nov 2004 08:08 PST
In Fact, I do not need my site to appear in these specific countries
at all when they do a Google search.  How can I do that?.

Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 12 Nov 2004 11:22 PST
Hello Erwinrupert,

To answer your second clarification first, I am not aware of any way
to remove your site from a Google search by country. You may want to
contact the staff who administer the main Google site as indicated at
  ://www.google.com/contact/search.html
[if I was you, I might try the help email address first]
to see if they can suggest a solution to this part of your question.

The first one will take a little while to explain but a more direct
answer can be provided if you provide:
 - the operating system you are using on your server
 - which web server you are using
 - the Internet Service Provided (or ISP) you use for your internet connection
I will also assume you can determine the IP addresses of the systems
you want to block from the web server logs. If that is not true,
please indicate so I can help find that kind of information for you.

  --Maniac
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Subject: Re: Can I block my IP address from appearing in certain counries?
From: lordo-ga on 20 Nov 2004 22:08 PST
 
This is feasible.

1- Download this: http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/downloads/ip-to-country.csv.zip
(zipped csv file)
2- Copy and paste the code from here to your site:
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/21

And you are done!

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