How Can PHP Allow IP Address Range of Real Users by Blocking Machines Used to Perform Security Attacks - Tor Geoip Tools package blog

About the Tor Geoip Tools Package

The package Tor Geoip Tools is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Generate IPTables rules to block the range of a IP

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This class can generate IPTables rules to block the range of an IP.

It can find the IP range segment of a given IP address by looking up at a GeoIP database in CSV format generated by the Tor project geoip-db-tool command.

The class can output commands with parameters to use the iptables program to block the IP range segment.

The class can also determine the country of a user accessing a Web site based on the IP address of the user's computer.

Conclusion

The Tor Geoip Tools can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

This package was considered notable for implementing its benefits in a way that is worth noticing.

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