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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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                          • GertjanG
                            Gertjan @Bob.Dig
                            last edited by Gertjan

                            @Bob-Dig

                            Ah ....

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

                            But this :

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                            NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE
                            

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

                            and who is sponsorBlocker ?

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

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              @Gertjan said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                              sponsorBlocker

                              Plugin for youtube user submissions. Probably unrelated.

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                              • M
                                mvikman
                                last edited by

                                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.

                                pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                                Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                                Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                                HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                                HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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

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

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

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

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

                                      @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.

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

                                        @stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

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

                                        How to test?

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Stop using the proxy and see if it stops happening?

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

                                            @stephenw10 said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:

                                            Stop using the proxy and see if it stops happening?

                                            Fair. I have the feeling, testing this is not that easy, the problem is gone.
                                            I am using Dante socks proxy. If anyone has a recommendation for an alternative socksv5 proxy, please let me know. I am not able to make an exception just for this forum from the proxy, how this is setup in Firefox.

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