CentOS - Jun 2008 - African IP addresses list

Hi all,

I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate
of fraudulent orders coming from them.

I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP
addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I
can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the
ranges for each country one by one.

Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would
definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by
CIDR.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate
> of fraudulent orders coming from them.
perhaps you should try the geoip project's community options ?

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Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate
> of fraudulent orders coming from them.
> 
> I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP
> addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I
> can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the
> ranges for each country one by one.
> 
> Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would
> definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by
> CIDR.
how terribly shocking...
I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France 
because they eat frogs

On Friday 27 June 2008 09:09, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate
> of fraudulent orders coming from them.
>
> I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP
> addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I
> can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the
> ranges for each country one by one.
>
> Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would
> definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by
> CIDR.
>
Instead of blocking, possibly losing genuine messages, why not filter them to 
a folder where you can skim over the subject lines a couple of times a day, 
then delete everything if you don't see anything good?

Anne

Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate
> of fraudulent orders coming from them.
> 
> I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP
> addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I
> can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the
> ranges for each country one by one.
> 
> Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would
> definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by
> CIDR.
Matt,

I've no idea where on planet Earth you are located, but
if you think firewalling any block of addresses is good
policy for your site, that is your prerogative.

I am aware of several small companies whose business
interests are confined to with in a few hours driving
distance from their offices.  Accepting traffic only
from ARIN, blocking all others reduced spam and various
other misbehaviors by more than 50%.

These businesses have computing facilities for the
operation of the business and not for entertainment
of its employees.  Address blocking and clear acceptable
use policies have greatly reduced IT administration
costs for these companies.

Go to IANA for the list of class A address allocations.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

Best,
Ray

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:09 +0800, Matt wrote:
> I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa
Wow--that means you're not as righteous as some other
pinheads on this list! For shaaaaame!  :-)
> due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
... and by "high rate" I assume you mean 100%, just as my
company has experienced.
> Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already?
I use:

  * 041/8
  * 154/8
  * 196/8

which I got from here:

  * http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

Miark

>
I would like to add something, as a South African citizen. South Africa, 
is NOT part of Africa for that matter, it's a republic on it's own.
It's
almost like saying "Let's ban America, cause someone in Mexico spammed 
me". South Africa, which is on the 196/8 range does a LOT of business 
overseas in many countries, and I do want to warn that you could loose a 
lot of good business due to this practice.

Most of the fraud you experience could come from Nigeria, or one of the 
other central & western Africa countries. To ban a whole continent 
because of problems some countries cause could be problematic.

For that matter is China a different country from Russia, from 
Switzerland, even though they share the same land mass


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I need to put my 2c in here. I'm from New Zealand, we are a first world 
democratic country (the first in the worlds to give the vote to ALL 
adults I may mention). I have had the misfortune many of times of being 
unable to transact business because people from the US in their 
ignorance think, that New Zealand, isn't that part of Australia, which 
is right next to Asia, can't do business with those Asians, they will 
rip me off. Now sometimes people from the US have asked me why people in 
the other parts of the world get a bit annoyed at the "the only country 
that is free and true if the good old US of A" attitude, and well here 
you go as an example. Lets ban all of Africa because someone from 
Nigeria is a scammer. Africa is a pretty big place, and you know what, 
I've met many South Africans that are real nice (even employed a few). 
I've always been someone who defends America when people run it down, 
but it is a two way street, don't treat a whole country as criminals 
because you don?t know the difference between one side of a continent 
from another, its kind of insulting you know. And some day you might 
well need the rest of us, you never know.