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(Hi,
I’m using the Wordfence plugin on my WordPress site hosted with InfinityFree.
The scan won’t start, and Wordfence support says it may be because outbound connections to their servers are blocked.
Could you please confirm if outbound connections to the following IPs are allowed?
44.239.130.172
44.238.191.15
35.155.126.231
54.68.32.247
44.235.211.232
54.71.203.174
)
Thank you!
If the outbound connections are blocked, admin isn’t going to make an exception I’m afraid.
On the other hand, I don’t know if those connections are blocked
We generally have very few outbound blocks, so I don’t think it’s likely those IP addresses are blocked.
But even if they weren’t, then Wordfence wouldn’t be able to access your website, because it would be blocked by this feature:
So my recommendation is to just ignore this scan feature from Wordfence.
If packets were made outbound and allowed, would inbound packets that could be filtered not be blocked, if the connection state was not took into consideration ?
You cannot control the security system. All connetions to your site that is not made by a browser will be blocked.
That’s hard to answer without going into the nitty-gritty of networking internals.
The gist is that the requests to your own website go into the web server in the same way as connections from the outbound would. While it might be technically possible to grant exceptions to traffic from the same server, we have no such thing set up.
“Connection state” mainly refers to responses to TCP connections. That’s not what’s being blocked (you can make requests to external APIs from your website, and those responses are handled correctly), any requests to your website are blocked on the HTTP level, regardless of their origin.
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