Ban, unban, and allowlist traffic sources
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The section shows a list of traffic sources (i.e., sources of incoming requests) that are currently banned, blocklisted, and allowlisted.
A traffic source is banned automatically when it violates a .
You cannot manually move a traffic source into quarantine. Instead, you can create a Dynamic Rule to do it for you. The Dynamic Rule's parameters should be as follows:
It should be active (in other words, the Inactive toggle should not be selected).
Target should be set to IP
Number of events should be 0
Action should be a blocking action (e.g., Dynamic-rule block)
Quarantine Time should be the length of time you wish the ban to last
The Exclude list should be empty
The Include list should not contain all
The Include list should contain the tag(s) that will uniquely identify requests coming from the traffic source.
Manually removing a requestor from quarantine is discussed here: .
To exempt a traffic source from other stages of filtering, do one of the following:
To exempt a traffic sources from potential quarantine, add identifying tags to the .
To bypass all stages of filtering, follow the steps described here: .
To exempt requests only from bot challenges or content filtering, configure an with appropriate tag(s) in the Bypass list, then use a to assign that ACL Profile to the desired paths/URLs.
To exempt requests only from bot challenges, configure an with appropriate tag(s) in the Bot Challenge / Skip list, then use a to assign that ACL Profile to the desired paths/URLs.