I was browsing my site and realized I dont average 11 people online at once and I got really suspicious and looked at my stats and realized I had a 350% traffic increase.

It looked like someone was archiving my site and wasting precious sponsored BW... I checked the IPs and found out that all the 100's requests came from an ip beginning with 65.102.

So now I decided to block this prick off my site permantly by blocking all of 65.102 ip range... Was this a good or bad idea? I'm I right saying that I blocked 64516 usable (65536 total) IPs, if not someone correct me :)

So if I wanted to block all of the 65.102 range I would need to enter this into my blocked ips list right?

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^.*65.102.*$ [OR]


I tested it locally (replacing with my ip, and it worked.... but anyways... I feel good I took some bozo off my site :) Is there a list anywhere of IP's I should ban?

EDIT
I decided to use limit, because it looked like the above didnt work as expected...

<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 65.102
</Limit>


Justice is served :dgrin:

It's a shame that you can't just go round and kick someones arse couse there at the other side of the world.
That's a downer.