Why aren’t there automatic permanent blocks?

  • Resolved roosites

    (@roosites)


    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I recently had a client site exceed their bandwidth. One IP Exceeded the maximum global requests per minute for crawlers or humans, the block count was 51757! So my question is, shouldn’t there be a setting to automatically, permanently Block obvious abusers like this?

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @roosites, thanks for your question.

    Wordfence deals appropriately with IPs in real-time when they break rules in your settings or the firewall. We generally believe a manual blocking regime is unnecessary, but this may be a case where observing the amount of activity in Live Traffic may warrant a permanent block to be set up if you’re concerned about site speed or resources. If it’s not really affecting legitimate users and their experience on the site though, it may not need to be permanently blocked and you can leave Wordfence to continue dealing with it.

    The reason why Wordfence itself doesn’t permanently block on your behalf is down to the extra workload created for the administrator should that IP later be reassigned to a legitimate visitor, plugin, or service. If unwanted blocks started happening as a result of that, it may not be immediately apparent to most users why.

    Thanks,
    Peter.

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