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You are currently modifying the entire server.

What can I do from this page?

This page allows you to restrict access to pages on your server by hostname or IP address - that is, limit access so that only sites that you want to have access to parts of your server.

If you don’t want to limit access from certain addresses, you can return to the server manager.

How does address restriction work?

Address restriction is an easy way to get better control over who is seeingyour documents. When a reąuest comes in for a document, the server knows the 1P address that the reąuest is coming from. Once it has this address, ituses DNS to lookup the hostname that corresponds to that 1P address. Then, it checks its address restriction.

The address restriction is done in two steps: first, the server tries to mateh the incoming host name with the restriction host name. If the Client passes, the document is served. If the Client fails the test, the server will then cheek its IP address against the restriction IP addresses. If it