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Whip The Admins... - IP Not Welcome
Nik [ Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 08:54 PM ]
Post subject: Re: IP Not Welcome
Not to worry, Tormie will sort it out...
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Problem may be that some-one on your IP got onto PF's barred list. IIRC, there was a recent spate of bot attacks...
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Um, been a couple of years, but I was temporarily excluded from several forums when my IP was really, really slow dealing with a couple of local ijits who'd run their new broadband connection without any firewall and inadvertently hosted a spamming blitz...
Tormie [ Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 09:01 PM ]
Post subject: Re: IP Not Welcome
Hi DarthRizzo, and welcome to Posetteforever <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/viannen_01.gif" alt="" />
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I should have fixed it, I tried the restaurant and the Vespa and they are working now, I don't know if you wanted the Vespa character or something else (there are many files to be used with VK's Vespa <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> )
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In case, just cut&paste here the link to the non working page.
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About the error that appeared it was due to a files' permissions wrong setting, I think is Drifterlee bad breath fault <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_sick.gif" alt="" />
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In any case, if something like that will happen again, write again in this forum, it will be fixed (probably <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/redembarrassed.gif" alt="" /> )
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P.S. To Nik: actually it was a different problem due to an extra-protection of the folder where the files are stored, I'm checking the relative .htaccess file just now, but it was not related to IP. Normally an IP that is ranked as used by spammers cannot even navigate the site (having not a fixed IP it happened to me too that Posy slammed me out <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/new_cussing.gif" alt="" /> (and Janreinar yesterday <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/connie_ashamed.gif" alt="" /> ). Only few IPs are barred on site (IPs from a couple of people that are "personae non gratae") the rest is checked by a specialized external site that blacklists them with a "threat" score. If some spammers avoid the check, their IP is added by me to that site so that the data will be available worldwide for barring on all the sites that are using the same system. It can happen that with a dynamic IP one is using a "blacklisted" one even if he or she is "clean", but it's the price that we pay for having the site clean without paying people to do the job manually (Tormie inspects his pockets and find only the usual chewingum wrappers <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/redembarrassed.gif" alt="" /> )
DarthRizzo [ Thursday, 23 April 2009, 03:21 PM ]
Post subject: Re: IP Not Welcome
Hi Tormie
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You are the best. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> The downloads are working fine now. Thanks for the fast help. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/notworthy.gif" alt="" />
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Rizzo