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Re: [SLUG] ip addresses


This one time, at band camp, Phill wrote:
>
>Hi all 
>
>Is there any way of finding out the range of ip addresses used in
>Australia. My web server is frequently being attacked by !@#$$#%$!#@ in
>other countries. I want to configure my hosts.allow to accept australian
>ip addresses only

Check out GeoIP tools, there's a Perl module, and a comprehensive database
created by various hacks and heuristics.

Australia's IP addresses come from APNIC, but the range isn't contiguous.