{"id":78,"date":"2004-06-30T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-12T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T03:24:39","slug":"old78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Blocking out IP&#8217;s from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sick and tired of getting spam and &#8216;open web proxy&#8217; probes from IP&#8217;s originating from China? Do you do absolutely no business with anyone in China? Want to block all IP&#8217;s orginating from China and rid yourself of this issue? Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okean.com\/asianspamblocks.html\">http:\/\/www.okean.com\/asianspamblocks.html<\/a><br \/>\nI actually made use of their lists in order to block some large subnet blocks which were sucking about 10-15% of my total bandwidth just through their incessant probes of my network.<br \/>\nAnd before anyone starts crying about how sad it is that I&#8217;m &#8216;censoring&#8217; people from China, well too bad. I can&#8217;t afford to keep paying for an internet connection that is slowly being used up by probes originating from servers which can&#8217;t keep up with security patches. Not to mention the crazy amounts of spam originating from these IPs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick and tired of getting spam and &#8216;open web proxy&#8217; probes from IP&#8217;s originating from China? Do you do absolutely no business with anyone in China? Want to block all IP&#8217;s orginating from China and rid yourself of this issue? Take a look at http:\/\/www.okean.com\/asianspamblocks.html<br \/>\nI actually made use of their lists in order to block some large subnet blocks which were sucking about 10-15% of my total bandwidth just through their incessant probes of my network.<br \/>\nAnd before anyone starts crying about how sad it is that I&#8217;m &#8216;censoring&#8217; people from China, well too bad. I can&#8217;t afford to keep paying for an internet connection that is slowly being used up by probes originating from servers which can&#8217;t keep up with security patches. Not to mention the crazy amounts of spam originating from these IPs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geek-stuff","category-information-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sA6RZ-old78","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}