Ban By Ip Address In Dolphin 7
For those of you that would like to use your Dolphin 7 Administration Panel to block ips you can login to your admin panel and navigate to:
Tools–>IP Blacklist
Here you can enter ip addresses or ranges of addresses to deny.
In this example I will deny 27.8.0.1 to 27.15.255.254
Set the IP Role to deny
Click in the Expiration date, and the calendar opens to select a date when you want this rule to expire. I reccomend approximately 1 year.
You can enter a description to identify this deny rule so you can remember why you blocked it. Be as specific as you want.
Then click the “Apply” button.
Now you can see the rule I just created has been added.
Notice it says: “IP List Type is 0 : disabled”
Enable this by going to:
Settings–>-Advanced Settings
Then find the Security menu/option.
Find “IP List Type (1 – all allowed except listed, 2 – all blocked except listed, 0 – disabled):
By default this is set to 0 – disabled.
Since I created a deny/blocked rule I want to set this to 1 – all allowed except listed and save the changes.
If you go back to:
Tools–>IP Blacklist
You can see it now says: “IP List Type is 1 : All IPs allowed except listed”
Pretty simple. Add, remove, or edit them to your liking.
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