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IP and ASN based blocking

Originally started playing with these again because I saw a post

about how some google user-agent doesn't respect robots.txt blocking

when it is against the "*" user-agent.

So, I remade some scripts to extract all the netblocks from the whois

server that pwhois.org runs, then add those to a static protocol block

in my bird config, with the routes for the ranges set to unreachable.

It'll read a list of ASNs from a config file, get their ranges,

generate the config file, and reload bird's config.

I also got tired of seeing failed login attempts in my logs.

Since my logs go to my desktop notifications, I see them fairly often.

So I added a way to add IP ranges to the list manually so they'd be

included in the block list.

Now, to make it so I can middle-click the desktop notifications

and have some menu-based way of doing "block this" to take care

of the "add to manual list" and then re-running the config generator

and bird reloader.