Blocking Domain

[The Dawg]

I know how to block an IP with .htaccess allow,deny

Can I do the same with a domain?


The Dawg

[salsbury]

technically yes, but doing so will automatically activate hostnamelookups, which is a very bad thing(tm) for sites with high traffic.

[toker]

use mod perl and it would be just as good as host deny plus you can refer the traffic to anywhere you want..There are ways to do it with CGI PHP ect.. but mod_rewrite is faster and a very powerful tool.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Most anything dealing with htaccess and apache mods can be found at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/

[toker]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by salsbury:
technically yes, but doing so will automatically activate hostnamelookups, which is a very bad thing(tm) for sites with high traffic.</font>

I dont agree with this and some very big sites make use of these tools. I would only worry if your on a shitty server with low memory but 256mb or better *nix should not be affected much at all even under heavy stress.

A perl module would use much more resources then using the apache mods which is always the better way to go.