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Ist there a BT IP blacklist service webmasters can use?

Rank_Outsider — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:52:46 GMT

Apologies if this question has been asked before - I couldn't find anything when I searched.

Does anyone know if there is any BT service that can be used by BT-hosted web sites to block certain IP addresses from accessing their site? I have started using htaccess to block specific IP addresses/ranges, but this method is going to take a lot of work to keep the "deny" list up to date.

Basically I would like to prevent attacks from known bad IP addresses without either having to become an expert in this area, accidentally preventing genuine users from accessing my site, or spending any more money!

Thanks.

Re: Ist there a BT IP blacklist service webmasters can use?

duskjome — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:35:34 GMT

As far as I know there is no method availible beyond the htaccess file that you mentioned.

Re: Ist there a BT IP blacklist service webmasters can use?

mattspchelp — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:22 GMT

Rank outsider, if you have PHP you could always write a script to download the latest "bad ip's" from known blacklists online and then write the .htaccess file,

Regards

Rank outsider, if you have PHP you could always write a script to download the latest "bad ip's" from known blacklists online and then write the .htaccess file,

Regards

Matt

Re: Ist there a BT IP blacklist service webmasters can use?

Rank_Outsider — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:32:59 GMT

Thanks to both of you for your replies. I do use PHP so could try writing a htaccess file, but I am worried about slowing my pages down too much. I suppose one way around it is to add the PHP to an 'admin' page that only I access, and then when I view the page it updates the htaccess file that protects the whole site (e.g. once a month).