Block Cloudflare

Cloudflare is whitelisted by default.

So if you’re noticing it getting blocked, it could be an issue. First check the setting “Whitelisted Bots” and verify that cloudflare is listed. Also another reminder that Blackhole is not yet compatible with page cache plugins.

And of course you can test to make sure the plugin is working properly. Visit the Installation tab on the plugin home page for testing and other information. Let me know if any further questions, glad to help anytime.

Hi Jeff,

I have checked seting that Cloudflare is in Whitelist but I have received the email report saying:

“`This email alert tells you that the plugin is working great, doing its job blocking bad bots. Below you will find details about the bad bot that was denied access. To disable these email alerts at any time, visit the plugin settings.

2022/02/23 @ 11:46:19 am

Request URI: /?blackhole=7b75f8830f
IP Address: 172.70.211.26
Host Name: 172.70.211.26
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)

Whois Lookup:

ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
Copyright 1997-2022, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.

NetRange: 172.64.0.0 – 172.71.255.255
CIDR: 172.64.0.0/13
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
NetHandle: NET-172-64-0-0-1
Parent: NET172 (NET-172-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS13335
Organization: Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUD14)
RegDate: 2015-02-25
Updated: 2021-05-26
Comment: All Cloudflare abuse reporting can be done via https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/172.64.0.0
OrgName: Cloudflare, Inc.
OrgId: CLOUD14
Address: 101 Townsend Street
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94107
Country: US
RegDate: 2010-07-09
Updated: 2021-07-01
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/CLOUD14

OrgNOCHandle: CLOUD146-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Cloudflare-NOC
OrgNOCPhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgNOCEmail: [email protected]
OrgNOCRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/CLOUD146-ARIN

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE2916-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected]
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE2916-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: ADMIN2521-ARIN
OrgTechName: Admin
OrgTechPhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgTechEmail: [email protected]
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ADMIN2521-ARIN

OrgRoutingHandle: CLOUD146-ARIN
OrgRoutingName: Cloudflare-NOC
OrgRoutingPhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgRoutingEmail: [email protected]
OrgRoutingRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/CLOUD146-ARIN

RTechHandle: ADMIN2521-ARIN
RTechName: Admin
RTechPhone: +1-650-319-8930
RTechEmail: [email protected]
RTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ADMIN2521-ARIN

RAbuseHandle: ABUSE2916-ARIN
RAbuseName: Abuse
RAbusePhone: +1-650-319-8930
RAbuseEmail: [email protected]
RAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE2916-ARIN

RNOCHandle: NOC11962-ARIN
RNOCName: NOC
RNOCPhone: +1-650-319-8930
RNOCEmail: [email protected]
RNOCRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NOC11962-ARIN

ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
Copyright 1997-2022, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.”

I haven’t enable any cache plugin.

BTW, does Blockhole for Bad Bots supports LSCache running on LiteSpeed Server? thanks