Blacklist IP's Still Connecting?
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Since our site has become more popular in the past 3 months I am getting a lot of connections from China, including bots, and I think it is causing my blog to slow down or even shut down numerous times a day. Today was one of those days when Jetpack notified me a half dozen times it was down.
I have been diligent viewing Akismet spam and collecting those IP addresses to add to the blacklist. I have also been watching my Who’s Been Online to see what kind of traffic I am getting. The China IPs seem to be up to no good. So I have been putting those IPs into the blacklist esp Baiduspider.
However these IPs are continuing to show up in Who’s Been Online. I look carefully at my IP list before saving new IPs for duplicates. I delete any. Then I add the new IPs. That’s when the duplicates show up again.
How is possible that these IPs are in the blacklist but they are not being blocked from access? Clearly they are able to do so even when they are blocked.
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