Title: Country Level Blocking issues
Last modified: August 16, 2025

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# Country Level Blocking issues

 *  Resolved [ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * (@ninjashoes)
 * [8 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/)
 * Hi, I have country level blocking for Brazil due to high traffic issues yet some
   traffic is still being allowed 24hrs after blocking the country. When attempting
   to add the individual IP we get a message indicating that the IP is already part
   of a blacklist record, yet it is still being allowed. This can be seen in the
   security firewall log. Can you please assist so that all traffic from that country
   is blocked.

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 *  Plugin Support [katereji](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katereji/)
 * (@katereji)
 * [8 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18601569)
 * Hello [@ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * I have reviewed your Security logs and found an issue with the definition of 
   the country of some IPs. We need time to investigate this. As soon as we have
   a solution, we will contact you.
 *  Thread Starter [ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * (@ninjashoes)
 * [8 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18601998)
 * Thank you. This also seems to apply to other countries as well such as Pakistan,
   India, South Africa, Ecuador and Mexico.
 *  Plugin Support [amagsumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amagsumov/)
 * (@amagsumov)
 * [8 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18601999)
 * Thank you for your updatae.
 * We’ll contact you as soon as we have any results.
 *  [SergeM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serge00/)
 * (@serge00)
 * [8 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18613528)
 * Hello and thank you for waiting.
 * We have fixed the issue. Please, check the results:
   [https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall](https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall)
 * Is it okay now?
 *  Thread Starter [ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * (@ninjashoes)
 * [8 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18613737)
 * It has improved but not completely fixed.
 * e.g [194.31.4.128](https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall?ip=194.31.4.128) Armenia,
   72.14.201.139 India, [209.14.102.6](https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall?ip=209.14.102.6)
   Columbia, [72.14.201.90](https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall?ip=72.14.201.90),
   Nigeria
 *  [SergeM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serge00/)
 * (@serge00)
 * [8 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18613868)
 * Thank you for your feedback.
 * We are investigating this case further. Please, wait.
 *  [SergeM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serge00/)
 * (@serge00)
 * [8 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18618766)
 * Hello,
 * We have improved our algorithm for the feature Personal Lists. Please, check 
   the result again:
   [https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall](https://cleantalk.org/my/logs_firewall)
 * Does it work well?
 *  Thread Starter [ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * (@ninjashoes)
 * [8 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18622886)
 * Better thank you
 *  [vadimcleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/usr1/)
 * (@usr1)
 * [8 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18622895)
 * Hello [@ninjashoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjashoes/)
 * We always happy to help! We do our best to keep all spam away.

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 * Last activity: [8 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/country-level-blocking-issues/#post-18622895)
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