Yeah.....I could probably delete the smaller blocks.....and just ban x. ones.....that kills the entire range.
I'm blocking all of Russia, China, Most of Europe, especially the Eastern cuntries....and most if not all of Asia, SE Asia, etc. A lot of South America also...
Haven't noticed any slow down.........and most of those places have no business accessing my sites in the first place.
There's a certain satisfaction in blocking a whole country.......lol.......
And I can see the results.....in the error logs....when it says access denied by the server.
Another trick is to redirect 403's to a 404 page.......that way they think they're getting a page not found.......and don't realize they are being blocked. The theory being that if they see they are blocked, they will try harder to get in......and on that 404 page you can have a 'Contact Admin' link.....to give the few that are legitimate a way to connect to your site. You have to ask them for their IP address, and then let them through.
All hackers should be shot. That would stop a lot of pain and suffering in the internet world. Not to mention $Billions lost cause of those assholes.........
If you have root access, you can install Fail2Ban.....which does a good job of blocking individual IP addresses .....it only blocks them for a set period of time.......which you can change.
I don't know why Fail2Ban isn't installed on ALL hosting servers....
I just got a dedicated server......and when you log in it tells you how many failed login attempt there have been since the last time you logged in.
It is INSANE. I'm talking THOUSANDS of login attempts that failed.....literally THOUSANDS.........
And a lot of times I will report their IP to the abuse EMail of their host......Probably doesn't do much good, but maybe....I just copy/paste the error log entries to the EMail.
Here's a sample 404 page you can copy if you want:
http://cyclonesecurity.com/404NotFound.htm ....z