Does anyone know of a way to prevent certain regions from accessing a hosted
website? Example would be preventing all IP addresses from Antarctica from
accessing our store front web site, because the Penguins are creating a lot
of credit card fraud.

Thanks for your help,

Jer

Re: Block access to web site based on IP and Region by Landi

Landi
Thu Jul 14 13:06:05 CDT 2005

You can check where the person is coming from based on their ip address. In
order to do that you need to have a database of all the ips in the world.
There is software/databases that will do just that. They are fairly
inexpensive and there are also free ones. You need to alter your current
store to check for this; IIS will not do it for you unless you make an ISAPI
filter. I have an example on my site if you want to look at it.
There are more sophisticated databases that will tell you the provider and
their actual region.
Hope that helps.

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"Jer" <Jer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a way to prevent certain regions from accessing a
hosted
> website? Example would be preventing all IP addresses from Antarctica
from
> accessing our store front web site, because the Penguins are creating a
lot
> of credit card fraud.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Jer