A funny htaccess file

Sometimes I use Duckduckgo to look up some IP that I caught in my Apache logs doing weird things. Not to do anything out of the information, more out of curiosity indeed. During one of those searches, I stumbled upon what seems to be an accidentally exposed htaccess file (precisely, not .htaccess – the starting dot was missing), and I thought it had some funny contents. Basically, it blocks the IPs of a number of French institutions (although most of the blocks are actually commented out).

I guess it can always happen to be useful to have a little listing of a few institutional IPs, so here are that htaccess file’s contents (I just removed a bunch of redirects as well as the custom 404 document):

# MEEDAT suite infos MEEDAT sce info
deny from 212.23.175.160/27
deny from 212.23.175.64/26
deny from 87.255.128.128/27
# MEEDAT initial
deny from 212.23.175.185
deny from 212.23.175.186
deny from 212.23.175.187
deny from 212.23.175.189
deny from 212.23.175.190
deny from 212.23.175.67
deny from 212.23.175.65
# interieur deny from 212.234.218.196
# mairie marseille deny from 194.242.44.29
#  IANA-BLK deny from 41.248.254.13
# FR-DGCP-BERCY deny from 83.206.120.8
# OLEANE Backbone deny from 194.2.20.67
# JMSP-HOSTING-1 deny from 212.23.178.54
# POOLBB2 deny from 84.55.185.26
# FR-RENATER-193-48-193-52 deny from 193.48.79.7
# AFRINIC-NET-TRANSFERRED-20050223 deny from 81.192.73.99
# Assistance Publique - Hopiteaux de Paris
deny from 164.2.255.244
# FR-MAIRIE-PARIS deny from 194.153.110.6
# AFRINIC-NET-TRANSFERRED-20050223 deny from 81.192.48.34
# FR-VINCI-CONSTRUCTION-FRANCE deny from 217.109.9.225
# COMMUNAUTE-URBAINE-DE-BORDEAUX
deny from 86.65.192.24
# COTEBA-DEVELOPPEMENT-ANTONY deny from 212.99.23.62
#  FR-TUNZINI deny from 217.108.222.57
# Office National des Forets deny from 91.207.176.110
#  Jetmultimedia France deny from 212.23.162.39
# FR-OFFICE-PUB-AMENAGEMENT-CONSTR deny from 90.80.34.250
# CONSEIL REGIONAL D AQUITAINE deny from 81.255.96.222
# FR-NCNUMERICABLE-20050726 deny from 87.231.195.238
# FR-THALES-SA deny from 192.54.144.229
# CEGETEL ACCES INTERNET SECURISE AIS-V2, firewalls deny from 217.19.202.32
# Atos Worldline IPv4 Subnet deny from 160.92.130.65
# SPEIG=Mail de COLAS le 170909 leve deny from 195.25.48.253
#  Jetmultimedia France
deny from 212.23.162.38
# CONSEIL-REGIONAL-IDF
deny from 212.99.12.201
# BOUYGUES deny from 193.57.110.171
# IANA-BLK deny from 41.188.13.2
# FR-CG-ALPES-MARITIMES deny from 193.48.79.7
# IANA-BLK deny from 66.249.72.179
# AFRINIC-NET-TRANSFERRED-20050223 deny from 81.192.73.99
# FR-VINCI-CONSTRUCTION-FRANCE deny from 217.109.9.225
# FR-MAIRIE-PARIS deny from 194.153.110.6
#  N9UF-INFRA deny from 217.19.195.242
# FR-NCNUMERICABLE-20050726 deny from 87.231.195.238
# FR-FRANCE-TELECOM-GLOBAL-HOSTING deny from 195.6.68.62
##### UNILOG en dessous
deny from 212.234.38.188
##### AP HP
deny from 164.2.255.244
##### birco-de
deny from 217.160.82.171
deny from 217.160.83.171