{"id":134,"date":"2004-07-19T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:20:42","slug":"contemplating_blocking_korea_and_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/contemplating_blocking_korea_and_china.php","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating blocking Korea and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am contemplating blocking all Korean and Chinese IP addresses from my machines using firewall rules. I am just sick of the port scanning, spamming, open proxy probes, virii and other unpleasant things that they do.
\nI asked on IRC and someone pointed me at this site<\/a> that contains lists of IP’s in all sorts of formats, next I will hack something up to use a set in ipfw2 to put the rules, and will cron updating of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am contemplating blocking all Korean and Chinese IP addresses from my machines using firewall rules. I am just sick of the port scanning, spamming, open proxy probes, virii and other unpleasant things that they do. I asked on IRC and someone pointed me at this site that contains lists of IP’s in all sorts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,63,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}