simpler way of banning whole world?

[ko_tish]

simpler way of banning whole world?
ok dont laugh,but as im using a huge htaccess file to ban full countries by range i was just wondering if there's an easier way doing this then adding tons of deny from to my htaccess.
for example,what if only want visitors from the u.s on my site..?

[VIROKILL]

umm, whats the point of doin that?

[Disturbed]

There could be many reasons, I know alot like to block out chinese.

[VIROKILL]

ya i could see the reason in that...

[andyf]

I don't thinks it is possible to block whole world.:eek: you can block certain IP range but not whole country's IP it seems to be very difficult to do so for getting IP address range.

[themanwhowas]

cant you just allow cetrain ip's instead of banning them?

[mikeyp]

Shouldnt you be able to allow only IPs in the US ranges and then deny all others?

[afterburn]

you can use www.arin.net, www.ripe.net to find out the country in which an IP is "owned" by, however this doesn't stop the company that owns them from using them on routers in USA or anyother country for that matter. But you can tell what country they are supposed to be.