Title: adding IP6 support
Last modified: July 21, 2025

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# adding IP6 support

 *  [Roger Trussell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogman2024/)
 * (@rogman2024)
 * [10 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-ip6-support/)
 * I’m sorry to bug you all again.
 * I was thinking, if the “ip_in_range” method in the “plugin.php” file was rewritten
   to offload the IP parsing to the [mlocati/](https://packagist.org/packages/mlocati/)
   ip-lib library , could this plugin then handle the monitoring of web user-agent
   devices that only use IP6 or only occasionally use IP4? I’m tempted to try to
   create a branch of this project that does that. Are they’re any software licensing
   issues that would prohibit such a branch?
    -  This topic was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by [Roger Trussell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogman2024/).
    -  This topic was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by [Roger Trussell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogman2024/).

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 *  Thread Starter [Roger Trussell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogman2024/)
 * (@rogman2024)
 * [6 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-ip6-support/#post-18713692)
 * I think I figured out how to use the “mlocati/ip-lib” library to make this plugin
   recognize and block brute force attacks from both IPv4 and IPv6. I’d like to 
   post and share my changes? Do I have the original plugin author’s permission?
   May I post my work on my GitHub account?
 *  [madukdiver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madukdiver/)
 * (@madukdiver)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-ip6-support/#post-18739645)
 * Shame there doesn’t seem to be anyone monitoring this so called ‘support’ forum.
   I think your modifications would be most welcome. There’s no guidance of how 
   to add ranges of IPv6 addresses to the whitelist which would be very helpful 
   as I have dynamic IP and I keep getting locked out of my own site due to relentless
   bot attacks.

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