Laravel - artisan down / Maintenance Mode except own IP

Question

Currently i am using Laravel5. My question is if if i use the Maintenance mode with

php artisan down

how can say \"the application is down for

Answer 1

Now you can use php artisan down --allow=127.0.0.1, or of course change the IP to something else. Multiple IPs are also supported, networks are also supported.

Not sure when this was implemented but is working fine for me in 5.6