10.0.0.165 blocked by plugin in .htaccess

  • Resolved Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    A weird thing just happend. A site just got blocked by this plugin. Looking in the .htaccess file it has this:

    # BEGIN Brute Force Login Protection
    <FilesMatch “.*\.(php|html?|css|js|jpe?g|png|gif)$”>
    order deny,allow
    deny from 10.0.0.165
    </FilesMatch>
    # END Brute Force Login Protection

    After commenting out the deny from part the site worked again.

    After loggin in too the site, under the plugin settings it thinks that 10.0.0.165 is my IP.

    What’s going on?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/brute-force-login-protection/

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  • Plugin Author Fresh-Media

    (@jan-paul-kleemans)

    Hi,

    Thanks for your post.

    The .htaccess file looks fine. Did you maybe accidentally block yourself (because of too many failed logins)?

    JP

    Thread Starter Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)

    That the weird thing about it JP.

    My client complained that he was blocked but I was blocked too. Seems that everyone was blocked by only that IP. Mine if totally different.

    Plugin Author Fresh-Media

    (@jan-paul-kleemans)

    It looks like that IP is a private address. Do you know how or when it was added to the .htaccess file?

    JP

    Thread Starter Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)

    No can’t say. I’ll have to check with the host for the log. Funny this still is that it’s trying to be added to the whitelist.

    https://cl.ly/image/0a3f2L2c2L3l

    Plugin Author Fresh-Media

    (@jan-paul-kleemans)

    That’s strange. The current IP button is linked to the IP address on which you are currently connected to the website.

    Can you check if that IP address is also displayed as your IP when you visit https://whatismyipaddress.com/

    Thread Starter Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)

    That’s why it’s strange. The IP address i’m using is 94.247.1…. So I don’t know why I’m seeing 10.0.0.165 in the backend.

    Plugin Author Fresh-Media

    (@jan-paul-kleemans)

    Are you maybe behind a proxy? See https://amibehindaproxy.com/

    Thread Starter Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)

    No I’m not. How can you check this on server level?

    I would suggest that (being a local IP address) is the local IP of your server.. It’s therefore blocking itself somewhat.

    Potentially if you are routed through a particular other server or something (it sounds like maybe the setup of your server is a bit wrong).

    Thread Starter Joshua

    (@joshuavalentin)

    We are looking for the problem as we speak. Thanks anyway ??

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