Banned IP addresses? Why?

[Abo Bob]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...900#post1249900

[lwells]

Abo Bob: the link doesn't work.

lwells, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

  1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

  2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

My home computers IP address seems to have been banned for no reason I can fathom, so I would like to know what's going on

LW.

[Abo Bob]

Sorry mate. All it is is a few people saying how their IP address is banned and discussing why that might be. Some suggested TPG but my gf works at a corporate in Sydney which I wouldn't expect to be using TPG and she has the same issue.

[lwells]

I am on Telstra Bigpond Cable (ie. not TPG) and I am getting the banned IP message. Its extremely irritating, especially since no one seems to be answering the @skylineaustralia email address

LW.

[AlphA]

I get the same MSG and in with Westnet in Perth.

[Driver]

Me and also phatr32 have been having the same problem for about a week now at our work

We have emaild prank but nothing.

[Ronin]

Just use a http proxy

[T0nyGTSt]

Hi Tony,

Could you do me a favour?  For some stupid reason my IP address has been banned from SAU sometime over the weekend.  Given my computer was switched off over the weekend I find it hard to believe this is anything but a mistake on the part of a moderator.

Could you possibly PM one of the mods on SAU (because no one seems to be answering the SAU email addresses) and ask WTF is going on?

Username is (obviously) lwells and my IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Thanks,

Lucien.

Could you guys follow this one up?

T.

[Bl4cK32]

by PranK On Mar 09, 2005 - 2:44 PM All,

Please be aware that a little turd has been registering SAU accounts and sending PM's to people like this one;

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADMINISTRATION

UserName,

Unfortunatley this message is to inform you of a recent series of unentertaining posts. Your asset to the forum and your contribution to the skylines australia community is currently being examined, immediately resulting in a 1 month probation. If and when a terrible post is made in the next 30 days which wastes viewers precious nonrefundable time and effort your posting rights will be withdrawn.

Kind regards,

Administration

The user has now forced us to disallow any registrations from the @westnet.com.au domain as talks with the ISP have not resolved anything. If you have an @westnet.com.au email address and would like to become a member, please use the contact form to get a hold of me.

I apologise for any inconvenience and hope that this little idiot realises that nobody likes him or finds him entertaining.

Christian

[Abo Bob]

I understand the above however my gf is at a corporate domain in sydney and has a banned IP address.

[lwells]

I understand the above however my gf is at a corporate domain in sydney and has a banned IP address.

Exactly.

I have nothing to do with Westnet -- I am on Telstra Bigpond Cable in NSW -- and my IP address has been banned. I should point out I can (obviously) log in to my account from other IP addresses, hence the ban is not connected to accounts but to IP addresses.

I'm guessing a moderator/admin banned (either wittingly or unwittingly) an entire range of IP addresses. Either way, it would be nice if someone could actually look in to this *hint hint*.

LW.

[Driver]

We are on a 8meg pipeline internet setup through the education dept.

Nothing to do with westnet.

[Abo Bob]

I hear it's something to do with a firewall SAU has.

[lwells]

I hear it's something to do with a firewall SAU has.

If it was a firewall or an htaccess file setting, you (and I) would be blocked before we saw a VBulletin page: ie. not webpage would be served.

We are being served the page which suggests its a setting within VB.

LW.

[AlphA]

Its the VBulletin that isnt working, I can go into most pages.. I cant enter that one.

[funkymonkey]

well I just tried checking the database that SAU forums use. It seems like the servername has changed.

as for firewall, about 2 months ago the server got a firewall installed, and since then, the IPs of people have always been 192.168.x.x ie the forum software couldn't see past the firewall. To get around this I made a script that checks the forwarded IP instead of the addressed IP. I'll disable this mod and see if you can access it tonight.

[PranK]

try now guys, see if anything has changed.

[PHATR32]

hey it works now! thatnks heaps!!

just so you know. i got westnet at home and i could get on, im in perth btw, so it must have been westnet in other states that had the problem.

thanks again

steve

[lwells]

Working again (Telstra Bigpond Cable in Sydney). Thanks

LW.

[PranK]

Steve,

Good stuff man.

The westnet ban we have is for new registrations, so existing users will be fine.

Christian