Today I had the Victorian Police go through my personal website at http://www.sacreator.com Since they went directly to the latest article posted there (before it was listed in any of the search directories) and then to my About Me page (https://sacreator.com/about/), I would lay a bet that it was in response to a complaint they received.
Quote from: http://whois.domaintools.com/203.25.230.151Whois Record
inetnum: 203.25.230.0 - 203.25.231.255
netname: VICPOLICE-AU
descr: Victoria Police
descr: Victoria Police Centre,
descr: 637 Flinders St
descr: Melbourne
descr: VIC 3005
country: AU
Not wanting to make it easy for police and other undesirables to harrass us when we are lawfully going about our business, I decided to block them from being able to visit my site. The method is to create a .htaccess file using notepad, include the information you need and place the file in the root directory of your server.
# Block IP range by CIDR number
<Files *>
order allow,deny
allow from all
#Blocks the State Library of Victoria-Australia
deny from 202.137.64.0/19
deny from 203.17.215.0/24
#Blocks Victoria Police Centre
deny from 203.25.230.0/23
</Files>
This method is not foolproof as they can still access your website by going to a computer that is on a different Internet Protocal (IP) range or uses another Internet Service Provider (ISP). On the other hand, someone that does not know what they are doing will probably think the site is down or that it has been blocked by their own IT team - end of problem.
If anyone has the IP details of the US Dept of Justice, ADL/ADC or any other undesirables likely to harrass us for our religious affiliations while we lawfully go about our business, then make those details known to us all in a reply to this post.
@Cailen.
Caught the Queensland state government peering at my site today. I have noticed that my blog entries get into google within two hours of posting, so I can no longer blame JOG visitors on any paranoic feelings I have - no matter how valid they are.
http://whois.domaintools.com/203.166.60.182 (http://whois.domaintools.com/203.166.60.182)
Resolve Host: mailb.ministerial.qld.gov.au
Update for the .htaccess file:
Quote# block IP range by CIDR number and other methods
<Files *>
order allow,deny
allow from all
# JOG Qld.gov.au
deny from 203.166.32.0/19
deny from 203.15.124.0/22
</Files>
@Cailen.
http://whois.domaintools.com/149.101.1.123 (http://whois.domaintools.com/149.101.1.123)
UDJ
Address: P.O. Box 59110
City: Potomac
StateProv: MD
PostalCode: 20859
Country: US
NetRange: 149.101.0.0 - 149.101.255.255
CIDR: 149.101.0.0/16
Quote# JOG US Dept of Justice
deny from 149.101.0.0/16
@Cailen.
Checking my stats this morning, I noticed I had a visit from the Australian Department of Defence.
I checked for similar entries and found that someone from the Department of Defence had stumbled upon my site via google, checked through a dozen pages and then sent out an email containing the following URL https://sacreator.com/about (https://sacreator.com/about)
This is the order it went in:
- Someone from the Department in Adelaide stumbles accross my site http://whois.domaintools.com/203.5.217.3 (http://whois.domaintools.com/203.5.217.3)
- An email is sent out to more than a few people around Australia
- First visitor from the email is from the University of Adelaide http://whois.domaintools.com/129.127.57.99 (http://whois.domaintools.com/129.127.57.99)
- The second is from the Department of Defence in Canberra http://whois.domaintools.com/203.10.224.61 (http://whois.domaintools.com/203.10.224.61) (Australia's version of Washington DC)
- Third visit is from Flinders University (South Australia) http://whois.domaintools.com/129.96.162.18 (http://whois.domaintools.com/129.96.162.18)
- Fourth, fifth and sixth visits are from generic ISP's situated in Melbourne and Adelaide
Whatever they think they are up to, it doesn't really matter. Thanks to today's visits, another outlet of the government has been blocked from sites under my control. All it took was a simple addition to my .htaccess file.
# JOG Dept of Defence - Australia
deny from 203.5.216.0/23
deny from 203.10.128.0/17
deny from 203.6.64.0/18
Quote# secure htaccess file
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
# set the server timezone
SetEnv TZ England/London
# block IP range by CIDR number and other methods
<Files *>
order allow,deny
allow from all
# JOG US Dept of Justice
deny from 149.101.0.0/16
# JOG US Federal Bureau of Prisons
deny from 206.136.0.0/14
# JOG Florida
deny from 199.201.190.0/24
# JOG US Commonwealth of PA
deny from 164.156.0.0/16
# JOG Australia - Parliament House
deny from 202.14.81.0/24
# JOG Australia - humanrights.gov.au
deny from 202.86.117.0/26
# JOG Australian Tax Office
deny from 203.202.0.0/17
# JOG Dept of Defence - Australia
deny from 203.5.216.0/23
deny from 203.10.128.0/17
deny from 203.6.64.0/18
# JOG Australia Department Of Immigration And Citizenship
deny from 164.97.0.0/16
# JOG Victoria Australia
deny from 203.25.230.0/23
deny from 211.26.0.0/15
# JOG Qld Australia
deny from 203.166.32.0/19
deny from 203.15.124.0/22
# JOG South Australia
deny from 203.26.120.0/22
deny from 143.216.0.0/16
# JOG Croatia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
deny from 194.152.198.0/23
# RATS State Library of Victoria
deny from 202.137.64.0/19
deny from 203.17.215.0/24
# Jews
deny from 84.110.192.0/20
deny from 87.68.24.0/21
deny from 87.68.32.0/22
deny from 194.90.251.112/28
deny from 212.199.124.0/23
deny from 212.199.126.0/24
deny from 212.235.92.128/25
deny from 212.235.106.0/23
# BOTS
deny from 94.102.49.14
deny from 64.41.128.0/17
# BOTS Websense.com
deny from 204.15.64.0/21
# BOTS Dragonara Alliance Ltd
deny from 194.8.74.0/23
# Japanese Server
deny from 150.26.0.0/15
deny from 150.28.0.0/14
deny from 150.32.0.0/11
deny from 150.64.0.0/11
deny from 150.96.0.0/14
deny from 150.100.0.0/16
</Files>
# Spammers 2
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer gov spammer=yes
deny from env=spammer
This is the Greenwich Mean Time version of the .htaccess file that I have had placed in the root directories of all of our domains. If you were wondering why you don't get certain visitors - including those from Israel - to your blogs and sites, you now know why ;)
The attached .htaccess file opens in Notepad. The date of revision is the date this post was last edited.
@Cailen.