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How can I restrict the access to my Droplet only for a Specific Country?

I would like to block access to my droplet from other countries. I would like to grant permission to access my drop from only a few specific countries.

How to configure this?

I am looking for a detailed answer as I am new here on DigitalOcean.

Thanks.

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LittleGrayFish • August 31, 2022

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alexdo • June 9, 2020

Hello, @sadhin

You can do this using CSF (ConfigServer Firewal) as well. In order to block a country you can use the CC_DENY option which accept two-letter country codes such as US, GB and etc.

In order to list more than one country you just need to separate them using comas:

CC_DENY = "AB,CD,EF"

You may find a list of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

If you’re not familiar with CSF or you want to install it on CentOS or Ubuntu droplet check out this mini tutorial:

For CentOS:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-install-and-configure-config-server-firewall-csf-on-centos

and for Ubuntu:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-config-server-firewall-csf-on-ubuntu

Hope this helps!

Sheldon • May 31, 2020

Use cloud flare for your dns. Then it’s easy.

Else- google max mind ip country list. This way will take time to setup and maintain

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