Banned until 2038

Obviously a hollow threat, but I've been getting blocked on Amigans irregularly over maybe the past six months. It happened again tonight and I finally decided to ask. Tonight's message was



I would imagine it's also logged somewhere server side. Would one of the admins please explain what's going on, and which blocklist(s) "Protector" uses? If you can't tweak anything here, I'll talk to them.

Cloudflare and their kind has made me rather sensitive to false positives.

Hi, I noticed the same thing myself, especially if I logged in on a mobile device.

When went to Amigans page from the links and the phone asked for automatic login, use that and don´t press the login button on the page or after that I got that notification.

Sometimes it did give the same notification so I cleared the browser data and start the brower, it also mattered whether the mobile of wifi connection.

I hope this help.

@DigitalDesigns


Because your using VPN, if you use a mobile phone you use different network and no VPN.

It can also happen, if your surfing from a open network, like a internet cafe, or open network on large airport. or a hotel, The IP address pool is not unique to you, its reused.

IP address range is just 4 billion, but 8,2 billion people live on earth, of course IPv6 should resolve that, but it not used, for most part is IPv4 that is being used. And a lot people don’t want unique IP anyways.. you know for security reasons. Even if does not really help…

Typical a IP is one address per business or house hold, that being routed to different device in your local network, this works, because one IP address can have many connections.

@LiveForItQuote:

I think the IPv4 addresses range is actually around 4 billion.

@Chris


4 000 000 000
4 000 000 K (Tusens)
4 000 M (Million)
4 G (billion)
0,004 (trillions)

The protector is a xoops plugin that helps with spammers. Here is the code base of it
https://github.com/XoopsDocs/protector-tutorial

The website it checks for bad actors is the stopforumspam.com

**LOL**

I find logging into Amigans while only using IBrowse on a real
Amiga, I have never ever once encountered such issues...

Maybe you should try it???

Of course, were AmigaOS ever get a VPN SANA driver (AHEM), to
be able to properly run on a laptop or cell[phone, I suppose
this all could get stickier.

...or walkero could just add a test for whether the browser
was IBrowse, HTML4 and/or didn't have an AI helper bot.

:D

PJS

@LiveForIt

I´m not using any VPN software.

@walkero

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Thanks. I had a look at stopforumspam's lists, but as I hadn't recorded my IP's, wasn't going to find an exact match for my IP's today. There are other IP's present from those blocks, though. I see the lists are updated hourly, which explains why the problem disappeared relatively quickly. The "2038" message is apparently you or one of the other admins being playful? Protector's features seem to be mostly anti-hacking features for XOOPS itself. I didn't see anything about loading block lists.


@DigitalDesigns

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It happens to me (exclusively?) on mobile, too, and is IP based, so acquiring a different address should solve the problem. Or maybe wait up to an hour? I'll post again when I find a smoking gun, and then maybe we can see what's happening for you.


@pjs

Well, one upside to being banned for 12 years is that by then we'll have OS 4.2. Maybe.

@tao

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Nah. This is managed automatically by the protector plugin. We do not do any manipulation at it.