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#27165 GEO IP plug-in - work?

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:17 CDT

Monday, 20 February 2017 01:06 CST

marvays

hi. i have question. I have website. I use geo ip plugin. I am from czech republic. i have setup plugin for all country without mine. Today i get email with:

We would like to notify you that a security exception was detected on your site, Vade Mecum Bohemiae s.r.o., with the following details:
IP Address: 185.86.5.199 (IP Lookup: IP Lookup)
Reason: Adresa administrace

wotk this plugin? How any people from Turkey can try go to /adminstrator page, if i use geo ip block. This plugin cant close door to my website?

Cani use any test for running geo ip block?

Monday, 20 February 2017 03:17 CST

tampe125

Hello,

GeoIP is not an exact science. We try to extract the location from the IP, but you have to keep in mind several things:

IP lists are very dynamic, this means that an IP could be related to country X and a week later linked to country Y. That's why you should update the IP database at least every 14 days.
We are using MaxMind free IP database. They are less accurate than the paid version, so you could get a false positive

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:17 CDT

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Edited by on 2017-03-22 18:17 CDT

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