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#23031 Feature request: Some logic for optimizing blocked IP's

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Latest post by dkdb on Monday, 27 July 2015 07:44 CDT

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:19 CDT

dkdb

I currently go through the list of blocked IP's and based on the number, and the patterns I expand them, and delete the unnecessary, ie. I got a ton of attacks from all sorts of IP's starting with 37, and after adding them all, and then going through the list, I decided to block all of 37. instead of individual addresses.
I would be nice if admintools had some 'optimization' daemon that could suggest this automatically, instead of me going through all the addresses manually.

Best regards Kenneth

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:40 CDT

tampe125

Hello Kenneth,

that's not possible: IP bans should be evaluated on case-by-case basis, you can't generally block an entire class (and by the way, the ban rule you created is too much broad: you're going to block legitimate users, too).
What we can do is to block an IP when it tries to do something bad several times in a row, and this feature is already there.

Davide Tampellini

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Monday, 27 July 2015 07:44 CDT

dkdb

I know I'm going to block legitimate users, and that's ok, as I've already blocked russia with geoblocking.
But fine, I'll just do it manually.