Title: Blocking Cloudflare?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Blocking Cloudflare?

 *  Resolved [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/)
 * Just saw that Clouflare (free CDN Package) used for one of my Dreamhost WordPress
   sites seems to be having a conflict with Wordfence:
 * > This email was sent from your website “Website” by the Wordfence plugin at 
   > Wednesday 20th of August 2014 at 11:02:04 AM
   >  The Wordfence administrative 
   > URL for this site is: [http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence](http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence)
   > Wordfence has blocked IP address 108.162.209.69.
   >  The reason is: “Exceeded 
   > the maximum number of page requests per minute for humans.”. User IP: 108.162.209.69
 * Is this a known issue? What are recommended steps to prevent this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [cadbloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadbloke/)
 * (@cadbloke)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209406)
 * Wordfence now supports IPv6 so here are those addresses with the IPv6 ones added.
   Let me know if I got this wrong, please.
 * 103.21.244.[0-22], 103.22.200.[0-22], 103.31.4.[0-22], 104.16.0.[0-12], 108.162.192.[
   0-18], 141.101.64.[0-18], 162.158.0.[0-15], 172.64.0.[0-13], 173.245.48.[0-20],
   188.114.96.[0-20], 190.93.240.[0-20], 197.234.240.[0-22], 198.41.128.[0-17], 
   199.27.128.[0-21], 2400:cb00::[0-32], 2405:8100::[0-32], 2405:b500::[0-32], 2606:
   4700::[0-32], 2803:f800::[0-32]
 *  [damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/)
 * (@damoncloudflare)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209407)
 * Seems to match the IPs we have listed on [CloudFlare IP ranges](https://www.cloudflare.com/ips).
 *  [cadbloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadbloke/)
 * (@cadbloke)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209408)
 * I hope so! Thanks for confirming Damon. I’m hoping someone from WordFence will
   confirm my formatting. I haven’t activated the Cloudflare stuff (nor IPv6 on 
   my host) yet – still sorting out the canonical domains so this is untested.
 * Wordfence is a totally brilliant plugin by the way. I’m setting up WP sites for
   the first time in 5 years. Things have changed a little in that time. CPanel 
   hasn’t but…CPanel.
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209409)
 * If Damon says they are right, they are. Damon knows all. 🙂
 * I just tested the IP’s and they are formatted correctly.
 * tim
 *  [damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/)
 * (@damoncloudflare)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209410)
 * “If Damon says they are right, they are. Damon knows all. :)”
 * lol. I wish I knew all:)
 *  [cadbloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadbloke/)
 * (@cadbloke)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209411)
 * ” I wish I knew all:)”
 * You don’t have to know all, you just need to know more than me. That’s not hard
   😉
 * Thank you both for your clarifications, you both have awesome toys.
 *  [damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/)
 * (@damoncloudflare)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-cloudflare/page/2/#post-5209412)
 * Thanks!

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