# "You can't login from that IP address"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-cant-login-from-that-ip-address/31233
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [21 juli 2015 om 06:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-cant-login-from-that-ip-address/31233 "2015-07-21T06:02:55Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [16 april 2022 om 10:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-cant-login-from-that-ip-address/31233/28 "2022-04-16T10:17:21Z")

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I’m glad you got that sorted. 🙂 👍

I’m afraid CDNs aren’t my specialty, but I believe there’s a bit of discussion in these topics which may be pertinent -

> [@Moderator can't log in to our forums](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-cant-log-in-to-our-forums/205343):
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> In our Discourse website(Public Site) some of the moderators are unable to login. When we analyzed this issue, we were able to identify the error message which said: the ip address is blocked from being accessed. On further analysis, Discourse has out of box functionality, which runs background jobs that identifies banned ip addresses from the same subnet and if it reaches the threshold, it bans the entire subnet. The threshold is identified by admin setting : min\_ban\_entries\_for\_roll\_up whi…

> [@Discourse, Cloudflare and IP Bans](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-cloudflare-and-ip-bans/88956):
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> There’s a variety of Discourse/Cloudflare topics about but I can’t find any specific to my issue. We get spam account or users that need to be IP banned occasionally, but then this blocks other users given the IPs are being shared on account of the site running through Cloudflare. Is there a recommended way to either: Pass through the correct IP address for each user? Or to find the IP’s being banned and whitelist them?

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