Attempting to use Custom Rule to block Bytedance fails

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Hoping someone can enlighten me.

Every day my website is scraped by the same IP address with ASNUM 396986 - and IP address in the subnet 139.177.246.0. They appear to be a bot trying to scrape my content.

I’ve tried adding a custom rule to block the ASNUM, and I’ve added a source IP address of 139.177.246.0/24 to custom rules. I’ve tried adding the same to the IP Access rules. None of it works - the address still gets through to my site.

Other custom rules get blocked by ASNUM and/or IP Access rules (I use fail2ban to protect wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php).

Can anyone shed any light on what I’m doing wrong, or does CF have a global accept policy for Bytedance (i.e. TikTok).

Cheers,
Steve

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Have you firewalled direct access to your host?

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