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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We've been getting an extraordinary amount of spam
from a few IP ranges (hosting proxies) and countries (Nigeria for example)
on our classifieds section.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mod Geo_IP</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>=============</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>http {<BR> geoip_country
/usr/local/share/max/GeoIP.dat;<BR>......<BR>=============</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and the result would be in <FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">$geoip_country_code </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>How would I ban based on this result ...
for the whole server? </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Banning by CIDR</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In Apache a simple Deny from CIDR would work in the
Directory / section. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>How can I do this in Nginx?</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Shri</FONT></DIV>
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