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#23027 Geo blocking not affecting adminpage

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Latest post by dkdb on Monday, 27 July 2015 10:13 CDT

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:09 CDT

dkdb
Despite I've set up geo blocking, on the 26'th I still got 543 attempts to access the adminpage. The IP's were all from geoblocked areas.
Is the geoblocking not supposed to protect the admin area?

Best regards Kenneth

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:46 CDT

tampe125
Hello Kenneth,

yes the Geoblocking will protect your admin page, too.
However Geo Blocking is not an exact science: it will guess the country of the IP, but sometimes the wrong country is detected, so the IP is not blocked.

Davide Tampellini

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Monday, 27 July 2015 07:47 CDT

dkdb
The IP is detected as being from that country if I ask IP-Lookup, but you are saying that there is a discrepancy between IP-Lookup and GeoIP?

Best regards Kenneth

Monday, 27 July 2015 08:03 CDT

tampe125
Yes, exactly.
We are using the offline database maintained by MaxMind, this means that sometimes it is not updated with the latest changes of the IP

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Monday, 27 July 2015 10:13 CDT

dkdb
I see, ok
Odd though that so many russian, ukranian, serbian, albanian and armenian IP's got through, strange that so many ips should've changed...

Best regards Kenneth

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