Blocking admin access to IP from from Amazon Services

  • nachogfa

    (@nachogfa)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello, Got this alert a dozen times, every day:

    This email was sent from your website “xyz” by the Wordfence plugin at Tuesday 14th of October 2014 at 08:09:47 PM
    The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: http://xyz.es/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence

    Wordfence has blocked IP address 107.22.61.99.
    The reason is: “Exceeded the maximum global requests per minute for crawlers or humans.”.
    User IP: 107.22.61.99
    User hostname: ec2-107-22-61-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com

    My limit is set 15 requests per minute, either for crawlers or humans.

    I was wondering if this is a threat or just the Wordfence plugin trying to access and check for security issues.

    Thanks very much for your feedback.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    I looked up the ip 107.22.61.99 at http://tools.whois.net/whoisbyip/, which didn’t really tell me much that I didn’t know. Its a dynamic ip controlled by amazon aws. It possibly could be a crawler, because the ip is similar to several found here:
    http://user-agent-string.info/list-of-ua/bot-detail?bot=CCBot
    I think on the sites I manage I have it set to a little higher than 15 for crawlers, and then I throttle the connections. I wouldn’t be really worried unless I saw it start to hit the wp-admin page or known vulnerable url’s (check the box to auto block people who hit that).

    tim

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