Blocking entire country?

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Hi folks,

We have a webiste and we see that large majority of attacks are from China, so we want to block China IP addresses (we have no customers from China).

My question is: will we get penalized by Google or other search engines?

Regards,

Nenad

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Great! Thank you for your answer.

[LesleyPaone]

I am guessing the machine has a type of management on it. If you are on a static ip address I would have the sysadmin set the port to only accept connects from you, them, and the local connection from the sysadmin in the data center.

[Uniline]

Thank you very much for the answer

There are mostly brute force attacks on known root port. Any ideas how to stop this in better way?

Thanks,

[EGOL]

My question is: will we get penalized by Google or other search engines?

Let us know how it works.  I might block New Jersey.  

[LesleyPaone]

If you do not block googlebot ip addresses in the process, you will not get penalized. But remember google does not post a list of their bot ip addresses, so be careful and monitor your GWT for error messages.

On a side note, what kind of attacks are you getting, there might be better ways to block them.