I blocked many IPs after a massive spam attack. Now some people with genuine accounts aren’t able to login. It says “You can’t login with that IP”. How do I correct this? Also, do blocked IPs get released after a few days? In my previous forum, I had configured it to 14 days. And I have a few doma…

[image] hmmmnotsure: Now some people with genuine accounts aren’t able to login. It says “You can’t login with that IP”. How do I correct this? Go to /admin/logs/screened_ip_addresses. [image] hmmmnotsure: do blocked IPs get released after a few days? After 1 year by default, configur…

[image] hmmmnotsure: I blocked many IPs after a massive spam attack. Now some people with genuine accounts aren’t able to login. It says “You can’t login with that IP”. How do I correct this? Are you using cloudflare and not the cloudflare template? Does your IP address match the one that Dis…

i can’t help with releasing IP’s and blocked users within the forum but surely i can help you with the firewall if you are using Cloudflare.

External check helps more rather than just discourse checks in place. Discourse inbuilt checks can be used as a level 2 defense.

Aftermath of spam attack! Need help with releasing IPs, and mass-blocking of profiles of a domain

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I was able to release some IPs and that made things better. Now just exploring Akismet for spam control.

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