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Nov 28.2005

I need to block a number of IP’s from visiting my site. The range of IP’s I need to block are:
66.123.9.0 – 66.123.9.255
My .htaccess file currently looks like this:

[CODE]
Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from 66.123.9.
allow from all
</Limit>
[/CODE]

It didn’t block any of those IP’s. Is there another way to block a range of IP’s?

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@TheBearMayNov 28.2005 — That should have worked, but you can also specify a domain, i.e.

deny from microsoft.com
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@Brad_ArmitageauthorNov 28.2005 — Actually, I think my mistake might have been putting that last decimal at the end instead of this:

deny from 66.123.9

Thanks for the reply TheBearMay, I'll try making that change and using the domain name aswell.
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@Brad_ArmitageauthorNov 29.2005 — Ok, I tried:

[CODE]
Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from 66.123.9.
deny from whatever.com
allow from all
</Limit>
[/CODE]

AND

[CODE]
Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from 66.123.9
deny from whatever.com
allow from all
</Limit>
[/CODE]

As you see I even included the domain name as well, but it still won't block any of the IP's in the range ?

Any other ideas??
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@bathurst_guyNov 29.2005 — Do you have rights to modify <limit> in a .htaccess file? Depends on whats in the http.conf file if you can or not - are you able to limit other things eg restrict valid-user.
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@TheBearMayNov 29.2005 — Also may try removing the "allow from all" and see if that helps.
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@Brad_ArmitageauthorNov 29.2005 — That didn't seem to do it either ?
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@MstrBobNov 29.2005 — It's a silly syntax error. They happen to the best of us.

<i>
</i>&lt;Limit GET POST&gt;
order allow,deny
deny from 66.123.9.
allow from all
&lt;/Limit&gt;


The problem here was you had:

<Limit GET POST>

order [b]deny,allow[/b]

deny from 66.123.9.

allow from all

</Limit>

For what you want, you need [b]allow,deny[/b].

Hope that helps. ?
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@CarolWDec 01.2005 — Speaking of denying access to an IP number, I have a few in my .htaccess file. But what happens to dial-up people? There are stilll lots of those, and I am one of them! So my IP number is dynamic, and every time I go offline and then return, I'm likely to have a different IP number. Then if I become an Unwelcome Visitor to somebody's site (haha), and I go offline, the next poor dial-up creature who gets the number I had previously is denied access, right? Poor thing! Just think of the mess I could make for somebody else!

I guess the big spammers tend to be on broadband, though, so their IP numbers wouldn't change very often - is that right? My guestbooks were hit by spammers, and finally I seem to be getting rid of them with .htaccess (what a relief).

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:39:40
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