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    • Bob.DigB
      Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
      last edited by Bob.Dig

      @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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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        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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        • Bob.DigB
          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @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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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Bob.Dig
            last edited by

            @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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            • Bob.DigB
              Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
              last edited by Bob.Dig

              @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. 😉

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan @Bob.Dig
                last edited by

                @Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                If I allow 3Party-Scripts

                Afaik, the forum uses some scripts (Java ?) to update the on screen content.

                @Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                But because the circle is not going away for me

                What circle ? Where ?

                A default Firefox like browser (with DNS settings edited - no DoH fan me) it works out of the box.

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                • Bob.DigB
                  Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                  last edited by

                  @Gertjan said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                  What circle ? Where ?

                  On the top right, next to the search icon. I have this all the time (now blocked/hidden).

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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan @Bob.Dig
                    last edited by

                    @Bob-Dig
                    Somewhere here :

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                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                    • Bob.DigB
                      Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                      last edited by Bob.Dig

                      @Gertjan
                      alt text

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan @Bob.Dig
                        last edited by

                        @Bob-Dig

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                        Ah, ok found it.

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                        Normally, it's hidden if no message is to be shown. It's the place where the popup text resides (it will get shown in the right bottom corner) that states that "The connection to the forum is lost". There was a time it showed up randomly several times per hours for many, you can find people talking bout it here in the forum.
                        But that forum issue (?) is gone now afaik.

                        Something or someone is resetting your TCP states - something upstream ?!

                        Not a web programmer myself, but this forum does the same thing as what the pfSense dashboard does : it comes with many java scripts that call back to the server(pfSense GUI) to interactively update the dashboard page.

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        • Bob.DigB
                          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                          last edited by

                          @Gertjan said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                          Something or someone is resetting your TCP states - something upstream ?!

                          I have no clue. All I can say, it is only with this forum.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Hmm, I run firefox with no-script here and only allow scripts from netgate.com and it works fine. I also have dual WANs and that doesn't seem to trouble it either. 😕

                            There have been times when I was seeing the loading circle and connection lost messages frequently but not any time recently.

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                            • Bob.DigB
                              Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
                              last edited by Bob.Dig

                              @stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                              but not any time recently.

                              Maybe because you are a admin? But then, Gertjan isn't seeing it either. If I block 3rd party google, I get the blacklisted IP warning every second time... Something special must be going on, that is why I am asking for whitelisting. 😀

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Yeah. Unfortunately there is no way to whitelist IPs in nodebb. There is only the blacklist. 😞

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                                • Bob.DigB
                                  Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                                  with no-script

                                  I am using uBO for that.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Mmm, I'm also running uBlock Origin.

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                                    • Bob.DigB
                                      Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10 Maybe I am on some blacklist? Looks like only I am affected.

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                                      • GertjanG
                                        Gertjan @Bob.Dig
                                        last edited by Gertjan

                                        @Bob-Dig said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                                        Something special must be going on, that is why I am asking for whitelisting

                                        When asking my browser what it does, I do see this :

                                        df5dd099-83be-4379-ab76-b4b180681095-image.png

                                        wss;//forum.netgate.com/socket.io/?........ errored out out, as the server ( ! ) said : connection refused.
                                        ( then why the forum sends a script with this URL and then it is refusing the 'call back' ? )

                                        It isn't really an issue, as I have no notification what so ever on the screen.

                                        wss:// ?

                                        @Bob-Dig : your turn : what request quest refused / times out ? ( Open web browser dev tools or whatever it is called )

                                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                        • Bob.DigB
                                          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                                          last edited by

                                          @Gertjan
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                                          • Bob.DigB
                                            Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gertjan
                                            last edited by

                                            @Gertjan
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