Are country IP address blocks officially standardised and can they be reliably used for access control?

I was setting up firewalld on an enterprise server and came across their concept of firewall zones. I figured I can easily use them and their source property to restrict access to SSH to only the internal network and my home public IP addr… Continue reading Are country IP address blocks officially standardised and can they be reliably used for access control?

Why don’t routers request permission when attempting to connect to an unknown address? (Or why do they still assume every connection is trustworthy?)

I’m imagining a system similar to UAC on Windows but implemented at the router level for IP addresses instead. (Or AS numbers, BGP numbers, Port number, etc…)
Naturally this makes router setup slightly more complicated because at least one… Continue reading Why don’t routers request permission when attempting to connect to an unknown address? (Or why do they still assume every connection is trustworthy?)