If you cannot or do not want to download the GeoIP database from Maxmind you can use GeoIP API website available on https geoip webence nl.
If you want to use the GeoLite database from Maxmind you will have to download the GeoIP database from MaxMind directly and upload it to your site..
If you do not want to or cannot download MaxMind GeoIP database you can use GeoIP API..
Also if you have access to the logfiles of the webserver that hosts your website you can see that these visitors are actually denied with HTTP error 403...
If your webhosting company supplies your with both IPv4 and IPv6 ip addresses please also download GeoIPv6 database or use GeoIP API service..
The WordPress guys have contacted me that the license of MaxMind GeoLite and the WordPress license conflicted.
Right off the bat warns about the MaxMind database missing asking admins to download it instead of starting to do so in the background like Geo Block IP plugin instead does automatically.
Change Adds ip address to the whitelist so if you block the country your website is hosted it can still access wp-cron for instance.. 1.1.43.
New When activating the plugin it now adds the IP address of the person activating the plugin to the whitelist if the whitelist is empty.. 1.1.18.
Change Due to conflict of the license where WordPress is released under and the license the MaxMind databases are released under I was forced to remove all auto downloads of the GeoIP databases.
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