Right now, I am getting hit by a several misbehaving bots, so I'm using Advanced ban to block these requests. Here's a common scenario. I see one suspicious IP hitting my site, so I block that. Later, I see a similar IP hitting my site. It might match the first several digits, because it turns out, my site is getting hit by a network of bots from a single cloud computing source. I'd like to just ban the range, starting with the earliest IP, but if I enter that, I get a validating error that the IP already exists.
My request is that instead of an error here, Advanced Ban just simply merges these records, and consolidates the old record under the new IP range record. I suppose I can just mitigate this by incrementing one of the digits in the address, but it's easy to overlook that when you are quickly trying to block a swarm of bots.
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