Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:36:21 Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:04, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a
particular country?

But seriously, it's called 'the internet' for a reason, and you may find
you get a more sympathetic response if you can tell us why you would want
to do such a thing. Usually projects like that are associated with
dicatatorships - I assume you have something more innocent than mere
xenophobia on hand?

OK

I run a free online game service in the UK it's open to anyone to play.

If a game has a custom map and you download that from the game server it takes
ages so I have all the maps on a separate webserver.

However it's constantly being leached to a ridiculous extent (always at my
concurrent limit in Apache) by people who just want the files, if I check
their IP's they're never coming from the UK.

I don't have unlimited bandwidth so have to restrict it. But the problem there
is that the UK based people who are playing the game can't access the
webserver as all the slots are constantly used.

I can't password it as the wget function of the games doesn't support it.

My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be
downloading my game files.

Cheers

Matthew
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