Question About Blocking Specific Countries and Website Accessibility
Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding country-based blocking. If I block traffic from a specific country on a website, I notice something strange:
When I try to access the website from that country, it doesn't open as expected.
However, if I wait for some time and check again, the website sometimes becomes accessible, even though the block is still in place.
Why does this happen? Is there a delay in WAF rules applying consistently, or could it be related to caching, proxies, or something else?
I’d appreciate any insights or advice on this behavior!
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Is there a delay in WAF rules applying consistently,Only a few seconds from update it takes to apply globally
However, if I wait for some time and check again, the website sometimes becomes accessible, even though the block is still in place.Sometimes? Geoblocking isn't a perfect art, it's based off your IP and IP Geolocation databases which can certainly be wrong. If you visit your website
/cdn-cgi/trace path, for example https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace, look at loc to see where the IP is geolocated to, maybe wrong country? You can use the account-level "Trace" tool as well and override country to test. Possible you have skip/ip access rules that bypass the country blocking.