# Does Discourse handle blocking of IPv6 okay?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-handle-blocking-of-ipv6-okay/83125>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 16, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-handle-blocking-of-ipv6-okay/83125 "2018-03-16T05:38:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-handle-blocking-of-ipv6-okay/83125/3 "2018-03-16T05:42:32Z")

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Yes, in fact repeated spam blocks will automatically roll up IP address blocks to increasingly large subnets, such as `255.255.255.*` and `255.255.*.*`

I’m not sure what this code does with IPv6 though.. cc @mpalmer @zogstrip

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