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The Firewall Rule That Blocked an IP, and Nothing Else

08/12/202604/08/2026 by Serhii Matiushchenko
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Reading Time: 3 minutesBlocking an attacker’s IP address stopped nothing, because the address hitting the edge was never the attacker’s own. The same flood kept coming back seconds later from a brand-new address, one hop further back than the block was looking.

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