attempted lohin from within?

  • Oldthom

    (@oldthom)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I have had a lot of attempted logins just now, some using’admin’ some using a name derived from the name of the website. Wordfence seems to be holding they back but what is worrying me is that one persistent attempt is coming from 192.168.100.236 which apparently cannot be blocked because it is a ‘local private address’. Can anyone tell me what this means? Am I under attack from my own home network? You can probably tell I have limited knowledge of these things so my apologies if the question is silly
    my site is http://oldthoms-curios.co.uk/

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  • lorro

    (@lorro)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Sounds like an attack but not from your home network. See this. You should be able to keep them out by putting this in your .htaccess file:

    Order Deny,Allow
Deny from 192.168.100.236

    For more info, Google ‘.htaccess block ip”.

    Thread Starter Oldthom

    (@oldthom)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks Iorro, Sorry about my late response, I had problems logging in.
    I had about 200 login attempts on my web site within the space of a few minutes and I was blocking with Wordfence. What bothers me about this IP is that it can’t be blocked and it is referred to as a private network with apparently no web access. I haven’t come across anything like that before apart from localhost, I wondered if it was something similar

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