Confusion about blocked IP's

  • Just installed WF a few days ago. In my dashboard there’s a big window that tells me about WF activity over the past two weeks, which now includes one blocked IP (from Mexico). When I go to “bocked IP’s” in the menu for WF, however, it says that no IP’s have been blocked.

    Why am I getting two different answers about blocked IP’s?

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  • What is the value set for how long an ip is blocked when it breaks a rule?

    tim

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    It’s the default — 5 minutes. (I made no changes to the “Firewall Rules” section of the settings/options screen.

    Mostl likely the IPs have been unblocked between the time they were blocked and the time they appeared on the front page. 5 minutes is way too short. Try a couple of hours and see if that makes a difference.

    tim

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    Okay, but that 5 minute setting was the default.

    I changed it as instructed, then did everything I could to clear the single blocked IP being reported on the front page / dashboard, but although WF continues to insist that I have no blocked IP’s that IP is still reported as blocked on the front page.

    The front page / dashboard screen is also showing that the country (Mexico) with the blocked IP has also been blocked, but I’m using the free version and that doesn’t have country blocking enabled. (I’m not seeing any his from Mexico in the live traffic, and was getting a bunch of them before.)

    Ok. I think you are confusing what the dashboard widgets do.

    The data there is an accumulation of information. When we say “Top 5 IPs Blocked” We’re saying those are the top 5 we’ve blocked from the site ever. When we say “Top 5 Countries Blocked” we mean those are the top 5 IP addresses sorted by country. So, likely you don’t have any blocked IP addresses listed elsewhere.

    Does that help?

    tim

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    If the dashboard widget is reporting system-wide results, then no (or yes): I did not know that, and as a new user I don’t see any way that I could have known that.

    A big problem is that there is a button right under the widget info, which says, “Update Blocked IP’s”, and when I click it I am taken to my own ‘blocked IP’ page, with no indication that there is a difference between the two.

    In any case, thanks for the follow-up. I’ll kill the dashboard widget. ??

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