PfSense forum blocked in India

anand_phulwani

Dear moderators and admins,

The pfSense forum is blocked on Indian IP addresses, just curious and wanted to know why.

Thanks,
Anand

johnpoz

I highly doubt they are blocking every IP known to come from India ;) That is a HUGE amount of space… I show India with almost 3500 netblocks..

1.6.0.0/15
1.22.0.0/15
1.38.0.0/15
1.186.0.0/15
14.1.116.0/22
14.1.120.0/21
14.96.0.0/14
14.102.0.0/17
14.102.160.0/22
14.102.188.0/22
14.102.224.0/20
14.139.0.0/16
14.140.0.0/14
14.192.0.0/22
14.192.12.0/22
14.192.16.0/22
14.192.24.0/21
14.192.52.0/22
14.194.0.0/15
27.0.48.0/20
27.0.136.0/21
27.0.144.0/21
27.0.168.0/21
27.0.176.0/21
27.0.200.0/22
27.0.216.0/21
etc.. etc. etc.. etc...

Can you be a bit more specific with what network your coming from.. How do you know they are blocking and not just an issue with your isp connectivity or something between your isp and the rest of the internet on the path to pfsense IP.

anand_phulwani

Dear Johnpoz,

In India there are major two internet providers, BSNL (goverment owned) and Airtel, these two are the major players in telecom and internet, all the other players have leased the internet from one of the two. As far as i remember and can see

BSNL uses 59.X.X.X/117.X.X.X seriers and
Airtel uses 122.X.X.X/121.X.X.X

they definitely have other series as well, but these are the ones i get at my place.
For e.g. the current ip address i have is 122.161.51.XX and it is still showing banned.
I would like to request the moderators to please unban these ips if possible.

Attaching a screenshot of banned.

Thanks,
Anand

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johnpoz

well that clearly is a ban ;)

Prob because shit load of spam coming from your netblock would be my guess.. Yeah it sucks that the many sometimes get punished for the bad behavior of the few or the one ;)

jimp

There have been a ton of spammers from that IP space over time, so it was blocked. I removed the bans on that space for now, but if addresses in that range start spamming again, it'll have to be blocked again.

puneet1984

hello

Another pfsense user from India

Just to add,

apart from the these two ISP now there is a third ISP - Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (JIO)
and apparently, ip subnet of this ISP is banned... 49.43.X.X
Requesting to uplift the ban and see... if a lot of spam comes in then ban it again.

johnpoz

@puneet1984 I have adjusted ban to remove the large ban. But to be honest I don't recall anything but spam coming from all of india..