IP Banned ??

[innocent_criminal]

Hi

I was wondering why I was 'banned' from this board today. I tried to get into the scoreboard chat today and kept getting the 'you have been banned' message.

I am not a heavy participant in the forums, mainly a reader, so to be banned must have been a mistake. I just found that by resetting my IP address (luckily its dynamic) that I was able to gain access again.

Two things,

1. What caused my IP to be blocked? I.E. Banned without warning.

2. On the 'You are Banned' webpage there should be a link or notice to allow email to a moderator. Even by conventional email. Not everyone that this may happen to would be able to reset their IP address.

Regards

[Dale61]

Is your ISP Optusnet?

[innocent_criminal]

No I'm with TPG.

[Bucks5]

Another user was banned by accident, the reason Mike gave him on another forum was.....

We've been flooded with registration requests from spammers so I turned on automatic blacklist checking on the board which automatically bans any ip that has been harvesting or spamming.

Your ip address Cam, must have been used by spammers at some stage and is carrying baggage. You're probably not the only one affected.

I've turned the check off - we'll live with the registration flood.

I don't think that the moderators on Nicks are inconsistent or unreasonable and I'm surprised that you would believe that it could be anything other than a stuff-up of some sort... still, I might be a bit put out if it was me.

[Dale61]

This is the message I get when connecting with XChat.

[Mike]

As Bucks5 has kindly demonstrated the banning was unintentional and the result of me trying to reduce the workload.

It seems to have affected only TPG ip addresses.

My apologies, the blacklist checker has been turned off.

Dale, the reason the IRC server rejected your connection is because your system is insecure and is carrying an open proxy which puts the whole server at risk of attack by others who can enter the server anonymously through your connection. The server finds an open proxy by using your connection to connect back to the server (your machine should block such an attempt), if it can do that successfully it closes the connection to stop anyone else doing the same. I'd suggest you follow the link that the server gave you, learn about open proxies on IRC and clean up your machine.

[Black_White]

But Mike, there are NO security problems with a Linux system, never ever, wash your typing fingers off with soap for ever suggesting such a thing!













Hehe...

[Dale61]

From the research I've have been doing, it appears that it is a domain related problem, not my pc.

[hoggy]

I'm also with TPG and stuffed at home.

[Mike]

From the research I've have been doing, it appears that it is a domain related problem, not my pc.

Domain related? What's that mean? Whose domain?

An open proxy is an open proxy. The simple explanation is that the server found the open proxy by using your connection to connect back to itself and that's why you received the message that you did. How is that domain related?

Open proxies are not welcome on this server. Anybody who has been in the chat room during a connection and finger attack (that's when you have a multitude of messages flooding in opening windows all over your screen until the server disconnects you to avoid overloading itself) knows why we don't welcome open proxies. Scriptkiddies love open proxies and they use them at every opportunity to attack IRC servers - now, Dale, we know where they have been getting in.

As far as we are concerned it doesn't matter if you do nothing about it; it's no longer a problem for us because the server will just lock you out until your machine is secure.