When you use cPanel's under "Security" at "IP Deny Manager"

[bdistler]

On server "boru"

do to:

11-07-2010
I could go into technical detail, but essentially the server forwards all requests to a cluster of reverse proxy servers. Unfortunately, all headers sent to these servers have the IP of the server you're on (in this case, boru) rather than the actual client's IP.

When you use cPanel's under "Security" at "IP Deny Manager"
then enter "123.44.55.101" (use your real IP)

cPanel will tell you
"Users from the IP address(s) 123.44.55.101 will not be able to access your site."

This is cPanel's htaccess file made under "Security" at "IP Deny Manager"

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 123.44.55.101

which will NOT BLOCK anyone

try your own IP

users think they have blocked one or more IPs but they have not

ref: "Tell us what we can do in order to serve you better here."

IMHO remove the "IP Deny Manager" icon from cPanel

 

[Smith6612]

This is due to the fact that x10Hosting uses Remote Web servers to serve content up from a "main" server, so really it's not going to do much at all. That's why you also don't see Error Logs in cPanel any more.

 

[bdistler]

I know the 'why' but my point is:

users think they have blocked one or more IPs but they have not

 

[Brandon]

I removed this feature from cPanel to hinder any further confusion.