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, I would lay a bet that it was in response to a complaint they received.
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.
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.
- This site will convert the IP range to required CIDR http://ip2cidr.com for you.
- Comprehensive guide to .htaccess Here --> http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
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.