GoogleBot IPs (66.249.* and such) are whitelisted, if you set the option to.
But that does not mean that all Google IPs are good, just because that IP-range is owned by Google. Unfortunately, Google runs both Cloud services and Proxy services, that can be used by bad guys to run decidedly bad apps (until caught).
Load up a bad app, and Google can have you running and scamming in minutes. 🙂
Same for Amazon AWS (almost always bad), Microsoft Azure (almost always bad), and similar cloud services. Can’t by default white-list all of those, or we would all be in dire straits. (In fact, I block all the cloud services, as they are attacking me many times a day using fake User-Agent strings from random IPs.)
White-listing that single IP would be just as meaningless as blocking that individual IP permanently (except by blocking the whole range).
These IPs change constantly depending on which “door” the bots come out of at a given moment. Rarely are they fixed-assigned addresses.
If you are displaying an RSS news-feed, that means YOU are pulling data.
Not that Google would “load content onto my site”, I would think.
It would be a pull, not a push.
One would need to know what the blocked action is, to know what to do about it, if this is an action you actually want to let in.
Hi @revdarkwing,
The IP address is that of a Google App Engine host (part of Google’s Cloud Platform products and services), so the connection could be coming from “anyone”.
Could you please let us know what it is being blocked for?
