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Block IP address or domain using cPanel IP Blocker Tool

cPanel IP Blocker allows you to block an IP address or a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site.

On the other hand ,Blocker tool can also accept a fully qualified domain name.This tool is useful when you want to block the access to your website from an unwanted IP address or a domain name.

How To Use cPanel IP Blocker

Login to your cPanel control panel.
From cPanel dashboard click IP Blocker icon from Security Tab.
On IP Blocker Page you are now able to add IP entries with following options:
1. Single IP Address :Single IP format will block a single IP address. Example: 192.168.0.1
2. Range :Range format will block a specified range of IP address from accessing website.Example: 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.40.
3. Implied Range :Implied Range format work like Range format and it will block a specified range of IP addresses from accessing your website.Example: 192.168.0.1-40.
4. CIDR Format :this CIDR format will block a specific subnet of the IP address.Example:192.168.0.1/32
5. implied IP address :this format implies IP address of 192…, where each represents a positive whole number. If you enter 192., the system blocks the access from any IP address that begins with 192.Example: 192.
6. Domain Name: you can enter domain name to block from accessing your website “Please Note that cPanel IP blocker tool will resolve the Domain to its IP address”.
Click Add button.And you will get success green message , click Go back and you can see the IP’s listed in Currently-Blocked IP Addresses table.”All IPs in this table will be denied from access your website”.
To Remove the IP from Blocked IP addresses ,Simply Click Delete link from Action column .

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