Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts
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Hmm, are you using a fixed IP?
There are a bunch of things in the blacklists but I don't think we added any after the spam flood. Most of what is there are used by VPN providers because, unfortunately, that's what spammers use.
But I wouldn't have expected your usual ISP to be listed.
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@stephenw10 My impression is and I have not talked about that with anyone else yet, that whatever I do, I get those messages. And reloading helps every time so it might not be an actual blacklist but something else with my Browser, what triggers this...
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Hmm, do you have load-balanced WANs perhaps?
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@stephenw10
No. My Browser is optimized for privacy though.
Still having that problem...Before and still I often get "Looks like your connection to Netgate Forum was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.", but not that my IP is blacklisted ([[error:blacklisted-ip]]), which it is not. But it seems like I am the only one with that interesting problem.
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I used to see the connection lost message but haven't for some time, like maybe 6 months.
You don't have dual WANs?
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@stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
You don't have dual WANs?
No, I am not JKnott, god bless him.
I have a lot of VPN Client-Connections (and Gateways) but I am not using them for this forum right now.
Edit: My connection goes through a SOCKS5-Proxy under my control. I don't know if this can be seen by the forum or anyone though. I hope not.
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Hmm, no the forum couldn't 'see' that. It also implies your traffic always comes from that IP. Unless the proxy is load-balancing somehow?
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@stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
Hmm, no the forum couldn't 'see' that. It also implies your traffic always comes from that IP. Unless the proxy is load-balancing somehow?
Hi Stephen, I still have that problem every day and I have no clue what to do about it. May I ask for a whitelisting? I can give a "static" IP if it helps.
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Hmm, as far as I know the forum has no way to whitelist IPs. There is only a blacklist. And your IP cannot be one it because if it was you wouldn't be able to connect at all.
Something else must be happening. Do you have dual stack v6/v4 perhaps?
There are 5 IPs logged for recent connections on your account. But it looks like from x.x.x.182 in the last 25 days.
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@Bob-Dig no need for static - what is your IPv6 address, can you give the prefix, or pm it to me and can check the blacklist - maybe you are hitting it via IPv6 and then switching to IPv4 that is allowed?
There was a period where was seeing those you lost connection myself - but as Steve mentioned haven't seen that in quite sometime.
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@johnpoz Hey guys. I don't use IPv6 for the forum. The Browser goes through a Socks5-Proxy and that only can talk IPv4.
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@Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
I don't use IPv6 for the forum
So you could use it ?
forum.netgate.com is IPv6 native for years now. it can still be used with IPv4 if really** needed.** Joking of course, these are de days of "full stack".
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@Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
The Browser goes through a Socks5-Proxy
And did you remove that - to be honest that could be the problem.. Is this a local proxy or some proxy outside your network>
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@johnpoz It is local but not in my main LAN.
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Oh, I missed (or forgot!) some content here; are you only seeing the 'lost connection' message now?
Yes, I occasionally see that too though usually only if the connection changes somehow. Like a VPN connects or my WAN re-links etc.
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@stephenw10 Yes, this is gone since not using load-balancing gateways for the connection anymore but I still get [[error:blacklisted-ip]] very often and have to reload.
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Hmm, hard to see how that could be. Your IP is not blacklisted, you are able to reply! I would think it must be changing but.... not sure how unless you have some VPN active you're not aware of. Somehow.
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@stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
Oh, I missed (or forgot!) some content here; are you only seeing the 'lost connection' message now?
I have to correct myself. I see the message and a circle at the top spinning, all the time. I hadn't saw it before because I had blocked it and forgot. Now with everything disabled, every blocking, privacy feature, everything, I still get the blacklisted-IP message. There is nothing I could do left other than switching browsers...
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@Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
There is nothing I could do left other than switching browsers...
Does it only happen in one browser? That would be.... weird!
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@stephenw10 Ok, another correction. If I allow 3Party-Scripts to google and have the circle spinning all the time, then it is looking good so far (Edit: most of the time). But because the circle is not going away for me, I blocked that and that warning about loosing connection. Now the forum seems to be usable. But I wonder what everybody else is doing. That message and circle were stepping on my nerve.
