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Manually creating access control lists

Varnish allows you to use access control lists (ACLs) , a feature that enables fast matching of a client's IP address against a list of…

Using the IP block list

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Working with ACLs

Access control lists (ACLs) allow you to store a list of permissions that Fastly will use to grant or restrict access to URLs within a…

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