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Off Topic Area => Random Musings => Topic started by: Asianfire on October 05, 2017, 05:26:37 PM
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I can log in/check in at any time when I try at my school.
But the system gives the prohibited info when I log in from home.
Any, known reasons?
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Kurt,
pm me your IP address.
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I have a suspicion in our wide sweeping banning of Russian IP addresses we might have nailed a few that weren't Russia accidentally. Make sure Randy has your home IP address so we can see what happened and take care of it.
We had a huge spammer influx that was driving Randy, Robin and myself bonkers, with most of the culprits coming from Russia. We got all but one of them before they posted, but we were banning at least 4 a day most days for a while. We finally had enough and we've been taking turns entering wide swaths of RIPE.net into the IP blocker on the server end. Ripe.net of course serves most of Asia, India, Russia and the Middle East. We have been attempting to block only those IP addresses linked to the areas of Russia that have been giving us the problems in these broad sweeping IP blocks.
If anyone is having trouble accessing the forums, please email us off the forum and let us know, or if you can log in from another computer, drop us a message here so we can fix the issue and get you back to rockin'. We have been making every effort to make sure we didn't accidentally ban an actual member, but mistakes do happen.
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Kurt,
pm me your IP address.
Robin,
If you go into his profile and click on "track user" you will see all the IP addresses he has logged in from along with the most recent. He doesn't have a static IP, it varies every time he logs in by the looks of things. However, there are IP addresses in there that look like the IP chains we have been working with.
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Thanks for the info, Amanda. I will look at the banned IPs and check Kurt's against it to see if I can fix it. I have some time today (finally!).
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I have had a problem too. It says code 404 when I try to log on to the iPhone internet. No problem with my internet and WiFi at home
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I'll see if I can find out what's going on with yours, too, Jhon.
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Ok, I checked all of Kurt's and Jhon's IP addresses against the ban list and none of them are even close. I'm at a loss. Randy?
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I checked all his IP addresses, nothing close to his is blocked.
If he is getting the 403 error, its not us or his machine. its DNS and his servers are refreshing also.
I had to call my ISP and let them know and next day it was back up
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i also had to disable any web accelerators, update virus program and do a microsoft update.
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I uninstalled an ad blocker, that may have been the oissue. I dont know
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/245142/-error-403-access-denied-forbidden-occurs-when-you-connect-to-windows
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i too am currently getting the 403 error again.
I have asked support on the hosting if they have any idea.
I am getting in using a free online proxy server, so i know the forum is working. something is blocking all of us.
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I can log on only using the anonymouse.org site.
Also, as I type this I notice that the emoticons are not images, they are the printed word
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I tried periodically to visit (had not been at school for the past 5 days).
Up until about 5 hours ago, no go. Now suddenly it seems to work.
Thank you so much for all your efforts.
There should be only 3 IP addresses on my profile. I dont use the computer anywhere else than home and school.
I rarely visit on the phone which would explain a multitude of IP's.
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I am still cannot get on the forum from the mt I phone internet
Works fine on any wifi that I use. I don’t know how to fix it
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Randy is still working on this problem. He has reached out to the hosting company to see if they can help figure out why people are having this problem. Hang in there .... hopefully we'll get it fixed soon.
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its internet service providers. my PC is back in.
it sure is a weird thing going on.
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My pc and my internet provider is fine at home. It has to be on the at&t cell phone service?
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i used the crap cleaner, then check marked the box for DNS cache.
I ran the cleaner yesterday & today i am back in.
It has to be provider side.
I bet since everyone (provider wise) is making websites go to secure sites (https) rather than standard (HTTP) that they are doing it on purpose.
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The error code is gone and all is working great. Thanks for your hard work
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I haven't been able to get on to the forum for more than a month; I changed computers but had the same internet provider and browser. I'm using the old computer to get on. I kept getting an error message and couldn't post anything.
It might not be a bad idea to have an email address posted somewhere that folks could find to be able to notify you guys that there's a problem. I couldn't send a private message because I wasn't allowed to.
Debbie K
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I haven't been able to get on to the forum for more than a month; I changed computers but had the same internet provider and browser. I'm using the old computer to get on. I kept getting an error message and couldn't post anything.
It might not be a bad idea to have an email address posted somewhere that folks could find to be able to notify you guys that there's a problem. I couldn't send a private message because I wasn't allowed to.
Debbie K
That, or we stayed in contact through FBpage
https://www.facebook.com/groups/826056314085845/
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somehow there as an edit to the main forum HT Access file.
Its been repaired by Sir Osis.
I think the ip ban added the ip addresses, dont know.