Support blacklist / whitelist by continents or regions

[pschiffe]

Hello,

first of all, thank you for a great tool!

I have an idea that could make the tool usage more comfortable - allow to blacklist / whitelist countries by continent. The tool could keep internal lists of countries per continent - I'm thinking for example North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania; and you could just specify to blacklist South America, and all countries from South America would be added to the blacklist.

Ideally it would work with specific countries as well, so for example, I could do: blacklist Asia, but at the same time whitelist Japan.

What do you think?

When looking for datasets that would have paired country codes with continents, I only found this, maybe it could be a good starting point:
https://www.nro.net/about/rirs/country-codes-and-rir-region/

peter

[friendly-bits]

Hi, a similar feature has been requested before. I didn't implement it because I did not think that many people would need it. Your request shows that there is more interest than I expected. I will look into implementing this feature.

[friendly-bits]

Hi, geoip-shell v0.7.3 supports specifying regions (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, LACNIC) along with specifying country codes. A mix of country codes and regions is supported as well.

[pschiffe]

I didn't reply before, but really, thank you for the great improvement!

I have a question that's not clear to me from the documentation, is it possible to blacklist a region (ie APNIC) and whitelist a single country (ie japan)? I'm not sure if I can mix whitelists and blacklists.

Thank you.

[friendly-bits]

This is not possible because geoip-shell works in either whitelist mode or blacklist mode (separate for each direction). That said, you can configure geoip-shell in blacklist mode to block the region:

geoip-shell configure -m blacklist -c APNIC

When this is done, run the command

geoip-shell status

All blacklisted country codes will be printed - copy them, remove the country codes you don't want to block, then use the command

geoip-shell configure -c "[modified_country_codes_list]"

geoip-shell is smart enough to understand that it just needs to remove specific country codes and will not re-fetch and re-load the IP lists for country codes you want to keep.

[pschiffe]

Nice, got it, thank you!