Is there a way to configure nginx not to block request from a specific IP address?

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Hi

I'd like do some static file tests on nginx, because I'd like to use nginx as my static file server

so I wrote a loop(500000 loops) to send request and retrive response from nginx through a 100M speed network (LAN),

I used apache httpclient to connect to nginx, after only 4 loops, the httpclient throws exception:

org.apache.http.conn.ConnectionPoolTimeoutException: Timeout waiting for connection

and the client could never connect to nginx again.

it looks like nginx blocked the request from my httpclient, I think maybe it is because I send too many requests to nginx at the same time, so could you please tell me is there a way to configure nginx  not  to block request from a specific IP address? I just had too many files to test, I don want to set some interval time between my requests, that will cost me weeks to finish the test. Thanks a lot!

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