Domain blocking not working?

  • Resolved EdwardCaulfield

    (@edwardcaulfield)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I set up domain blocking on the domain name site.ru, which is constantly showing up in my 404 logs. This did not work, so I tried *.ru, which also did not work.

    Does a URL show up in the 404 log even if it is blocked? I would expect that a blocked domain would not get far enough to generate a 404.

    Best Regards,

    Edward

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  • neo24

    (@neo24)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I set up a IP range, it doesnt work eather

    wfasa

    (@wfasa)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @edwardcaulfield,

    Can you please tell me exactly where you have entered site.ru? Are you trying to block that referrer, and if so, are you sure that you have entered it in the correct field?

    I’d also recommend using *site.ru* if you want to block that domain from referrers completely since it grabs anything that contains site.ru, whether there is something before or after it.

    Thread Starter EdwardCaulfield

    (@edwardcaulfield)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for the follow up. I am blocking the hostname. Should I be blocking the referrer? Guess that would make sense, as this is what the 404 log file calls it.

    The current block for the hostname is *.ru and see that I now have 4 blocks. Interesting….

    I have added the referrer of *site.ru* as you suggested, just to be sure. Let’s see how many blocks it gets.

    Best Regards,

    Edward

    wfasa

    (@wfasa)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Edward,

    What you should be blocking depends on what you want to block so to say. If you look at an entry in Wordfence “Live Traffic” you’ll see the hostname in “Hostname” and referrer you would see in the first line in the Live Traffic entry where it says “arrived from”.

    Hostname is what the IP resolves to, “Referrer” is the page they visited before yours (or what they want you to think they visited before, Referrer is often spoofed).

    Will leave you to experiment a bit for now, if you have other questions later just let us know!

    wfdave

    (@wfdave)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @edwardcaulfield,

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while. I’ve gone ahead and marked this thread as resolved. Please feel free to open another thread if you’re still having issues with Wordfence.

    Thanks!

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