Title: Does not block most foreign IPs
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Does not block most foreign IPs

 *  [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/)
 * I have many visits from china and russia, and they are not blocked by this plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550757)
 * And what makes you think these countries do not get blocked?
 *  Thread Starter [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550862)
 * I have all countries except the USA blocked. The IP addresses that are coming
   in are identified by the plugin as being from Russia and China. They are not 
   being blocked. Just today I have had more than 500 hacking attempts on the site,
   blocked by word fence, as they got to the login page and tried to log in. IQ 
   says:
    Overall statistics since start
 * 0 visitors blocked from the backend.
 * 12 visitors blocked from the frontend.
 * —-
    _[ 1,272 lines of log data deleted, please use [pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/)
   and share the link instead. ]_
 *  Thread Starter [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550863)
 * Because today it has blocked two visitors while I have had more than 500 from
   Russia and China attempt to use the login form. Wordfence shows the IPs, when
   I type them into IQ, it identifies them as Russian Federation, but it does not
   block them.
 *  Thread Starter [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550903)
 * Another more than 500 hacking attempts today, almost all from .ru, I sampled 
   a few and the plugin knows they are from russia. It has blocked a whopping 22.
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550925)
 * And does it display on the tools tab when you lookup the ip address that is is
   banned from the frontend and/or backend?
 *  Thread Starter [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550962)
 * Yes. The plugin does. not. work.
    IP Adress 217.77.215.249 belongs to Ukraine.
 * This country is not permitted to visit the frontend of this website.
    This country
   is not permitted to visit the backend of this website. ================== A user
   with IP address 217.77.215.249 has been locked out from the signing in or using
   the password recovery form for the following reason: Used an invalid username‘
   azhometips’ to try to sign in. User IP: 217.77.215.249 User hostname: 217.77.215.249
   User location: Mykolayiv, Ukraine
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6550963)
 * And if you lookup 217.77.215.249 in your raw access log of the webserver does
   it have a 403 HTTP error code in it?
 * As in that case the plugin works, it just does not log that it has banned this
   ip address.
 * Other WordPress plugins will also handle this visitor. So you may get notified
   even if the visitor gets blocked.
 *  Thread Starter [tholius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tholius/)
 * (@tholius)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-block-most-foreign-ips/#post-6551045)
 * I know it hasn’t banned it, because Wordfence reported that it locked it out 
   after typing the wrong password. So your plugin does not appear to work. Today
   I had more than 500 bad password attempts from foreign countries. IQ blocked 
   NONE of them.
 * Is there some log you want to see? I’d love for this to actually work.

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