From a6c4910479dee9a0089ccca5661bcb9525c484ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Mercier Costa <94469565+emrcbrn@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:42:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Note that reverse proxy access rules combine with AND by default (#863) Clarify in "Step 3b: Configure access control" that access restrictions of different types (IP CIDR, country, CrowdSec) are combined with a logical AND by default: a connection must satisfy all of them. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 --- src/pages/manage/reverse-proxy/index.mdx | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pages/manage/reverse-proxy/index.mdx b/src/pages/manage/reverse-proxy/index.mdx index aeb1d83e..8fad98ea 100644 --- a/src/pages/manage/reverse-proxy/index.mdx +++ b/src/pages/manage/reverse-proxy/index.mdx @@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ Switch to the **Access Control** tab to restrict access by IP address, country, - Add **allowed countries** or **blocked countries** to restrict by geographic location. - Set **CrowdSec IP Reputation** to **enforce** or **observe** to block or monitor known malicious IPs (when available on the proxy cluster). +By default, restrictions of different types are combined with a logical **AND**: a connection must satisfy all of them (for example, come from an allowed CIDR *and* an allowed country) to be allowed through. + Access restrictions are evaluated before authentication: if a connection is blocked by an access restriction rule, it is rejected before any authentication check.