login attempts

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  m54er · Member · Jan 21, 2020 at 9:04 am

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  Every now and then I get login attempts with dubious ip-addresses consisting of numbers and letters such as ‘16858a4d685c84511a4dedc8c8ee0c28’. Fortunately they are blocked by the plugin ‘limit login attempts’ – what I would like to know – what are they because the ip-addresses are neither IP4 nor IP6 conform.
  Regards Michael

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 21, 2020 at 12:50 pm

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  Hi Michael

  There are no sites under your account, what’s the address of the site you’re working on?

  Please note that these forums are for WordPress.com hosted sites only. If your site is using the open-source WordPress.org software, we won’t be able to help you out and you’ll want to seek help at these forums:

  https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

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  m54er · Member · Jan 27, 2020 at 4:19 pm

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  Thanks for your reply!
  I added my site to my profile – which is https://www.schelken.org

  Hopefully I use the correct version of WordPress for this forum – that I downloaded from 1und1.de a German provider.
  Regards Michael

  PS: by the way – my problem is still persistent

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 27, 2020 at 5:58 pm

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  Hi! This forum is for the managed hosting service, rather than the free software to run with other providers.

  You’ll want to create an account at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ if you don’t have one already, then post in the forums there. In fact, I’d check in directly with support for the plugin ‘limit login attempts’.

  Hoping this helps!

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