[Plugin: Better WP Security] Ban hosts won't save if using IP range w/ hypen?

Currently it should only accept wildcards. This translates much easier in most server situations. Did I miss a spot that still says otherwise?

Adding my question to this thread, I too am trying to move from using a hyphen to a wildcard but I’m having trouble getting this accepted. Would you please give an example of using wildcards for an example IP range, say, Russian Federation IP range 2.60.0.0-2.63.255.255.

@maximan
2.60.*.*
2.61.*.*
2.62.*.*
2.63.*.*

While I realize it is longer the performance improvement available with using only wildcards means I will not be changing it anytime soon.

Couple of questions:

1. Do you have a link to where I can download a complete list with wildcards to copy/paste into ban users. I could probably create a list but it would be much easier if there was a readymade source.

2. Regarding performance, can you clarify what performance benefit there is using wildcards versus using CIDR format directly inserted in the .htaccess file.

@maximan

No ready made lists other than HackRepair.coms list.

As for the performance problem, I had more than one instance of folks reporting problems where WordPress was hitting mem errors while processing long lists of hyphenated ips.