# Denyhost howto

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/denyhost-howto/189749>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [June 7, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/denyhost-howto/189749 "2010-06-07T05:07:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/edb3f5/32.png) [@Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Quan_Zhou)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/denyhost-howto/189749/1 "2010-06-07T05:07:17Z")

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Hi all,

I’m trying to ban a list of ip on my host by a file in following  
format:

Address Netmask

How can I do that?

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**Author:** ![Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/edb3f5/32.png) [@Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Quan_Zhou)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/denyhost-howto/189749/2 "2010-06-07T05:10:47Z")

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hi

you can use the http access module:  
[http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpAccessModule](http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpAccessModule)

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**Author:** ![Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/edb3f5/32.png) [@Quan\_Zhou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Quan_Zhou)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/denyhost-howto/189749/3 "2010-06-07T05:43:33Z")

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Thanks man, I’ll check it out.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mauro Stettler  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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> > nginx mailing list  
> > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
> > [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx)
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> nginx mailing list  
> [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
> [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx)

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