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True story:

People (or bots) using cloudflare ips to probe for exploited files.

I block the cloudflare cidr they are coming from.

Website backup (wordpress using updraft free) - fails.

Logs show failure to connect to updraft's web site.

I lookup the website's dns and see cloudflare ips.

Those ips are in the CIDR I blocked.

I temp undo the block, run the updraft backup, and go back to blocking millions of cloudflare ips.

Scratching my head on why updraft needs to connect to it's home site to run a backup, and why a better failure notice was not presented.



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