Web site IP Filtering

We've talked here before about filtering IP traffic applied to ssh with perhaps less risk of stopping desirable traffic. If you know that you'll always be accessing a site only from addresses in a certain country, you again can save the trouble of further processing on access attempts that come from other places. We've had some blacklist module that lets you do just that. Normally that is used to block traffic to specific ip's that have already exhibited unfriendly behavior rather than prejudging the traffic based on its country of origin. I wouldn't expect there to be much interest in blocking web traffic on such criteria. but apparently at least one company thinks otherwise: