Blocking ip address from proxy sites [Archive]

wethooters

11-26-04, 04:08 AM

Hi,
Can proxy servers slow down your site ? I notice a big slow down when people start using anonymous servers.They can run many proxy servers at a time from one person sometimes as many as 10 different servers. In the whois, it saids that these proxys come from ripe.net,asn.net and lacnic.net. My question is how can i block these websites out or redrect them some where else . I try to block out the websites with the deny on my htaccess but dosnt work. Blocking all the addys can be a real pain because there is so many of them. Most of these places have about 200 of these address and thats alot of ip blocking (lol)
Heres one from the whois -

OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: Singel 258
Address: 1016 AB
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode:
Country: NL

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43

NetRange: 195.0.0.0 - 195.255.255.255
CIDR: 195.0.0.0/8
NetName: RIPE-CBLK3
NetHandle: NET-195-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: NS2.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate: 1996-03-25
Updated: 2004-03-16

TechHandle: RIPE-NCC-ARIN
TechName: RIPE NCC Hostmaster
TechPhone: +31 20 535 4444
TechEmail: search-ripe-ncc-not-arin@ripe.net

Where in this addy can I block the website out ?

Thank you !
KIM :) :)

stevel

11-26-04, 08:17 AM

Well, you could block all IP addresses in the RIPE region, but that will do a lot of collateral damage:

DenyFrom 195

If you can identify a subnet the proxy servers are using, you can be more restrictive, but I'd guess that you can't.

Proxy servers should not cause your site to slow down. All they do is relay requests.