In my previous post I have showed how to easily generate IP range assigned to some country. I have modified this previous script to generate IP blocks for all countries and put it online for free download and usage.
Country CIDR IP ranges
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Generating country IP ranges lists
There are many sites providing country blocklists, for example http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker or https://www.countryipblocks.net/. When you want periodicaly update such list, you have problem. You need pay for that service for automated access, actual data or “hack” access to that service (abuse their free access conditions)…
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