Blocking IP addresses listed on external sites

[ajetrumpet]

has anyone here ever seen these 2 sites?

IP DENY
https://www.ipdeny.com/

TOR EXIT NODES
https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist

with regard to the former, the domain has one page per country I believe. so, you can get listings for like say, China and Russia on these 2 pages:

China: https://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/cn.zone

Russia: https://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/ru.zone

my question to folks here is, would this information be useful to me? I am putting together some website content that I do not want everyone in the world to see. And, it is possible that by some miracle, the sophisticated hacker world outside the USA will want to take it down and/or disrupt the service offerings of it if they find out that it exists. Anyone got any advice on whether these resources are even worth the effort to use? and if they are, what is the best way to leverage them? e.g. - when pulling info from the server DB to display content on the page, check this IP data first to see who they are and whether I will allow them or block them?

thanks.

Adam

@requinix, I know we've talked about blocking illegitimate traffic before.  and I know you said I can't ever get rid of all of it.  but this is new info that I've run across.  Just wondering what you guys think of this.  =)

[gw1500se]

Probably a waste of time. If users with those IPs use a VPN you won't know where they are coming from anyway. If you properly harden your server and pages you don't have to worry much about hackers. If you want to keep certain users off your web site then use a login page and vet the user before permitting access.

[ajetrumpet]

good enough.  thanks much.