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#36974 Never block this IP section

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Joomla! 3.10.8 Stable
PHP version
7.4.29
Admin Tools version
6.1.5

Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 19 April 2022 05:20 CDT

hbproph

Hi Team,

 

I found ip addresses in the never block these IPs section.

 

I checked then one by one and most of it is exist in the abuseipdb.com for various hacking attempt.

I never added any ip once to this section.

Any tip please how this can be blocked?

 

Also when im trying to remove then its automatically jumping back in the moment of saving so technically i couldnt remove them

 

Please advise

 

IP addresses:

 

20.191.45.212
23.21.227.69
40.88.21.235
50.16.241.113
50.16.241.114
50.16.241.117
50.16.247.234
52.5.190.19
52.204.97.54
54.197.234.188
54.208.100.253
54.208.102.37
107.21.1.8

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

The I would suggest not using abuseipdb because the IPs you see there by default are safe IPs belonging to major search engines, as per our documentation. If a third party service cannot discern the difference between an attacker and a search engine I would say their content quality is objectively bad.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

hbproph

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for your response, i dont think this is some trash 3rd party app, i attached a screenshot for you.

Picking the first IP address from the list.

20.191.45.212

This IP address was reported 1030 times by independent webmasters and administrators for various hacking attempt, please take a look.

 

screencapture-abuseipdb-check-20-191-45-212-2022-04-19-11_27_42.pngOO0JZJz

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Again, you are wrong. See https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ As I told you, this IP address belongs to a search engine, namely it is the search bot of DuckDuckGo.

I will also say this before closing this ticket. Just because there are 1030 idiots on the Internet submitting a report about something which isn't real doesn't magically make it real. There are many more than 1030 people claiming that extraterrestrials are among us, the world is run by lizard people who live under the surface of the planet, bird aren't real and other such obvious nonsense. Just because there are a lot of lunatics and morons doesn't mean the know what the actual heck they are talking about, nor does it mean that we should believe them instead of primary, corroborated sources.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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