Can’t block IP

  • Resolved andrewm57

    (@andrewm57)


    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    FIrst time ever: I tried to add an IP block plus reason, and the block page reloads with nothing blocked and no status/error info. WF is blocking that IP due to malicious UA, but I want to add it manually as well. Any clues or hints, logs to check, etc?

    I do have a free license entered, WP 6.5, WF 7.11.5

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @andrewm57, thanks for getting in touch!

    It’s generally unnecessary to have a manual blocking regime as IPs are often reassigned, so management can be difficult to keep up with. Naturally if you’re receiving many requests from a few, it may occasionally be necessary to stem the flow.

    Wordfence will tend to continue blocking visits it deems to be malicious based on their activity when using your site, breach of a firewall rule, or other factors like their UA/IP being on our list of known referers/visitors.

    The reason given in Live Traffic will always match the reason why the IP was originally blocked. In this case, having a malicious User Agent will be given even if your manual IP block is catching them in future attempts. If they continually visit with a malicious UA going forward, it’s likely the firewall will catch them before your manual block does too.

    Thanks,
    Peter.

    Thread Starter andrewm57

    (@andrewm57)

    Thanx. This was a stupidly persistent bot that hit over 10K times in an hour. Not a DDOS, just not throttled. Plus that IP went on to hit other sites in my shared hosting plan. I ended up using IP Blocker in cPanel to stop it.

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