[asterisk-users] IP ban list by country

[John Marvin]

  One possible advantage of the fact that IANA has depleted its pool of 
/8's (class A) is that if you are only filtering at that level the data 
is static now. It should never change again for IPV4.

John

On 2/13/2011 11:54 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Bruce B wrote:
>
>> What sources do you use to limit SIP connecting customers to specific 
>> countries by IP (e.g. allowing USA and not China). It would help me a 
>> lot of you can note the sources you trust that are complete and up to 
>> date.
>
> I compiled this list a few (6?) months ago by typing class A address 
> blocks into Arin.net's 'whois' web page and noting which Regional 
> Internet Registry it was allocated to.
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/allocated-class-a-ip-address-blocks
>
> After plonking this into a couple of production hosts, attacks of all 
> ports dropped dramatically.
>
> I note there have been changes since then (128.0.0.0 was assigned to 
> RIPE back in November), so if anybody wants to 'refresh' and post 
> changes, please do.
>