# IP and ASN based blocking

Originally started playing with these again because I saw a post
about how some google user-agent doesn't respect robots.txt blocking
when it is against the "*" user-agent.

So, I remade some scripts to extract all the netblocks from the whois
server that pwhois.org runs, then add those to a static protocol block
in my bird config, with the routes for the ranges set to unreachable.

It'll read a list of ASNs from a config file, get their ranges,
generate the config file, and reload bird's config.

I also got tired of seeing failed login attempts in my logs.
Since my logs go to my desktop notifications, I see them fairly often.

So I added a way to add IP ranges to the list manually so they'd be
included in the block list.

Now, to make it so I can middle-click the desktop notifications
and have some menu-based way of doing "block this" to take care
of the "add to manual list" and then re-running the config generator
and bird reloader.