Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts

[Bob.Dig]

@Gertjan

[Gertjan]

@Bob-Dig

Ah, ok found it.

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.

[Bob.Dig]

@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.

[stephenw10]

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.

[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.

[stephenw10]

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

[Bob.Dig]

@stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

with no-script

I am using uBO for that.

[stephenw10]

Mmm, I'm also running uBlock Origin.

[Bob.Dig]

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

[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 :

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 )

[Bob.Dig]

@Gertjan

[Bob.Dig]

@Gertjan

[Gertjan]

@Bob-Dig

Ah ....

This one :

doesn't make any issues. As I've the same, and all is well.
Everybody will se thes same lines I guess.

But this :

NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE

and I have this strong suspicion that "NS" stands for Name Server. So no DNS (anymore) .... ?

and who is sponsorBlocker ?

[stephenw10]

@Gertjan said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

sponsorBlocker

Plugin for youtube user submissions. Probably unrelated.

[mvikman]

Any non-default/custom uBO filters/lists that could cause it...?
I'm using Opera with uBO, never seen that "loading ring" on this forum.

[Bob.Dig]

@stephenw10 It is unrelated, disabled it, problem comes back.

[stephenw10]

You are using a local proxy for all traffic. Maybe it doesn't support websocket secure (wss)?

[Bob.Dig]

@mvikman said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

Any non-default/custom uBO filters/lists that could cause it...?

Even disabling uBO is not fixing it for me.

[Bob.Dig]

@stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

Maybe it doesn't support websocket secure (wss)?

How to test?

[stephenw10]

Stop using the proxy and see if it stops happening?