Simplest way to deny access to a class C

[Jorge Biquez]

>
>I wonder why nobodies mentioned a quite simple method with tcpwrappers and
>hosts.allow / hosts.deny also

Hello.

I guess something simple could work.... For some reason, don ask me 
why becasue I did not find why, the:

Order Deny, Allow
Deny IP
Allow all

under httpd.conf and outsite as .htaccess does not work but for now 
teh thing is simple, to block a class C, those guys are stupiod and 
programmed bad an application (I guess) and are pointing to one of my 
domains... since 4 weeks ago I am receiving this kind of access:

189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 
200 - "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1" 301 323 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1" 200 40833 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 
200 - "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1" 301 323 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1" 200 40833 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 
200 - "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1" 301 323 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1" 200 40833 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 
200 - "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1" 301 323 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1" 200 40833 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 
200 - "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1" 301 323 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"
189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] "PROPFIND 
/Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1" 200 40833 "-" "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600"

They change IP's , from the same Class C. No trying to do anything 
else, hack or send email....
So I decided to block the Class C. I guess that with the deny, allow 
directives under Apache would be enough but they do not work. I am 
under Apache 1.3x and all works fine but that directives do not. I 
tried , read and not be able to make them work so that's why I 
decided to block them and block others, those yes are trying to hack, 
the simplest way..... anyway.... I will see if the:

>hosts.allow / hosts.deny

would help.  If needed I would upgrade to latest version of FreeBSD 
Apache or whatever needed. Even when they do not do anything my 
server, a 386 that has been running Freebsd the last 13 years since 
Freebsd 3.x is supporting this extra load and besides they are 
wasting my bandwidth. I can not do anything and no problem but I'd 
like to solve this and continue learning Freebsd.

Thanks for your time.

Jorge Biquez