Immediately block IPs doesn’t work | WordPress.org

Resolved ragraker
(@ragraker)

7 years, 2 months ago

Hi, I have two sites, and each of them have installed WF, and the option “Immediately block IPs…” does not work on each site. I have about 60 links in my blacklist for blocking, none of them is not blocked by the WF. However, the “Immediately block the IP of users who try to sign in as these usernames” is working. I can not find a solution to this problem on the forum, can you help me with this?

brute force is on
Lock out after how many login failures – 2
Count failures over what time period – 5
Amount of time a user is locked out – 2 hours
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jamesd38
(@jamesd38)

7 years, 2 months ago

Following – same issue

I have to manually block then when I go back in theyre all unblocked again

cmangla
(@cmangla)

7 years, 2 months ago

I seem to have the same problem explained here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-protection-and-blocking/

and so do a few others explained in posts here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-protection-not-blocking-failed-logins/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-wordfence-is-not-block-ips-of-invalid-username-attempts/

Thread Starter ragraker
(@ragraker)

7 years, 2 months ago

maybe it will be useful for someone

I do not know why so, but the following thing helped me.
after activating additional functions, the blocking start work normally:

– Rate Limiting — ON
– Brute Force Protection — ON

before it only Rate Limiting was OFF in my site, and the blocking from tab “Immediately block IPs…” did not work

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