Title: Refreshing firewall rules
Last modified: June 12, 2019

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# Refreshing firewall rules

 *  [trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/)
 * (@trudslev)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshing-firewall-rules/)
 * Lately I’ve been getting this message:
 * > The last rules update for the Wordfence Web Application Firewall was unsuccessful.
   > The last successful update check was 22. May 2019 11:14, so this site may be
   > missing new rules added since then. You may wait for the next automatic attempt
   > at 12. June 2019 11:15 or try to Manually Update by clicking the “Manually 
   > Refresh Rules” button below the Rules list.
 * But when I try to update the rules manually, I get this error:
 * > No rules were updated. Your website has reached the maximum number of rule 
   > update requests. Please try again later.
 * Any idea how to fix this problem?

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshing-firewall-rules/#post-11636142)
 * Hi [@trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/),
 * In the past, similar issues were caused by the hosting provider blocking access
   to the Wordfence servers.
 * Can you provide some information regarding your hosting provider?
 * Can you also ask your hosting provider if they are blocking `noc1.wordfence.com`
   at all?
 * Dave
 *  Thread Starter [trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/)
 * (@trudslev)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshing-firewall-rules/#post-11636588)
 * I am using Digital Ocean. As far as I am aware they don’t block anything unless
   you do it yourself.
 * A quick test from the command line of my server shows this:
 * > xxx@foodgeek:~$ curl “[http://noc1.wordfence.com&#8221](http://noc1.wordfence.com&#8221);
   > {“
   > errorMsg”:”Wordfence API error: Your site did not send an API key when contacting
   > the Wordfence servers.”}xxx@foodgeek:~$
 * So the service does not seem blocked.
 *  [marvinalnashi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marvinalnashi/)
 * (@marvinalnashi)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshing-firewall-rules/#post-11642892)
 * You’re not the only one with these same issues.
    I think it’s a bug in Wordfence
   itself, but I can’t be sure. Can you check if it’s in conflict with any other
   plugins? You could uninstall Wordfence and remove all its’ settings and then 
   reinstall it eventually.

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 * Last reply from: [marvinalnashi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marvinalnashi/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshing-firewall-rules/#post-11642892)
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