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Can anyone please explain a new ‘thing’ happening on the forum I moderate. A week or so ago, I was surprised to see about 30 IP addresses originating in France all looking at the ‘No Permissions’ page. I checked the IP’s – they all seemed to come from the same place. These same IP’s seem to have taken up permanent residence; varying between 18 to 25 IP’s every day, for the last week, now reading posts. Do I need to be concerned or; is it a routine event? Is there any way of working out what they are; or, better yet, how to get rid of them?

One of the current 15; all from the same location.
 
IP:
54.36.148.251
Decimal:
908367099
Hostname:
ip251.ip-54-36-148.eu
ASN:
16276
ISP:
OVH Hosting
Organization:
OVH Hosting
Services:
None detected
Assignment:
Static IP
Blacklist:

 
Continent:
Europe
Country:
France
Latitude:
48.8582  (48° 51′ 29.52″ N)
Longitude:
2.3387  (2° 20′ 19.32″ E)
 







 
Thanks.

if you really want to ban IPs you can do so in ACP, by range if needed. I would not rush to do this though. The IPs may be legitimate bots crawling your site - which can be helpful for traffic.