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Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 4 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.636s | source
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Etheryte ◴[25 Aug 25 05:39 UTC] No.45010574[source]▶
One starts to wonder, at what point might it be actually feasible to do it the other way around, by whitelisting IP ranges. I could see this happening as a community effort, similar to adblocker list curation etc.
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1. worthless-trash ◴[25 Aug 25 05:44 UTC] No.45010597[source]▶
I admin a few local business sites.. I whitelist all the countries isps and the strangeness in the logs and attack counts have gone down.

Google indexes in country, as does a few other search engines..

Would recommend.

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2. coffee_am ◴[25 Aug 25 05:45 UTC] No.45010605[source]▶
Is there a public curated list of "good ips" to whitelist ?
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3. worthless-trash ◴[25 Aug 25 06:26 UTC] No.45010837[source]▶
So, its relatively easy because there is limited ISP's in my country. I imagine its a much harder option for the US.

I looked at all the IP ranges delegated by APNIC, along with every local ISP that I could find, unioned this with

https://lite.ip2location.com/australia-ip-address-ranges

And so far i've not had any complaints. and I think that I have most of them.

At some time in the future, i'll start including https://github.com/ebrasha/cidr-ip-ranges-by-country

4. partyguy ◴[25 Aug 25 06:32 UTC] No.45010878[source]▶
> Is there a public curated list of "good ips" to whitelist ?

https://github.com/AnTheMaker/GoodBots