title: GitLab issuing temporary IP bans - 403 forbidden
body: <p>My GitLab instance setup will occasionally put in place an IP ban on our own IP address, resulting in all our users in the office getting 403 / Forbidden on any web page or git request.</p>
  
  <p>The ban is being put in place as a result of repeated errors authenticating, which is a separate problem altogether, but I would like to prevent our own IP address from being IP banned. It lasts for about one hour.</p>
  
  <p>In the nginx logs, nothing unusual pops up in the gitlab_access.log or gitlab_error.log files. The server is still running, and external IP addresses are unaffected while the ban is in place.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to whitelist our own IP address, or to be able to disable the ban once it occurs (restarting gitlab doesn't remove the ban). If neither of these are possible, then just finding the setting to tweak the ban duration down from one hour would be OK too.</p>