We recently saw a scenario where the client wanted to create an ip whitelist for their intranet site. This site is the same installation as the client’s public site. It simply has a different domain and different content. The question was ‘How we can manage separate whitelists and blacklists (ie ‘list sets’) for each domain, rather than one list set per installation.’
Domain_ip behaves similarly to ip_ranges, but it differs in the following ways:
Ip_ranges is used to define an ip whitelist and blacklist for a specific site. This is okay except for installations that also use the domain_access module, because they have different domains for a same installation. In this case, they are restricted to single list sets across domains. Whereas ip_ranges works against all domains for an installation, domain_ip provides a separate list set for each domain, respectively, meaning each domain has its own independent whitelist and blacklist.
To manage multiple sites, on the administration page there is a separate ip settings tab for each list set. Each domain has its own administration tab.