Wilcards with IPV6

  • Resolved Vincent VARESANO

    (@varesanodotfr)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Today I got kicked out of my website because I tried a bad login credential (damn auto-fill). The problem is my IP (v6) change regularly and on my IP (v4) is registered on the white list.

    It is possible to add IPV6 wilcard support in WP Cerber to avoid this kind of situation ?

    Two choices of wilcards :
    – [0000-FFFF] : 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:[0000-FFFF]:[0000-FFFF]:[0000-FFFF]:[0000-FFFF]
    – or *

    Is it too much hungry in term of processing power or something like that ?

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  • Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    Unfortunately, neither PHP nor MySQL support such huge numbers (128 bytes) natively. Handling IPv6 is a big pain in the neck for now. It produces a lot of issues and generates unnecessary load for a server. In case of a hacker/bot attack, it drains all server resources and kills all websites on it.

    I will immediately implement processing IPv6 when native support for IPv6 will be implemented in PHP and MySQL.

    Please go back to the more convenient IPv4 world ??

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