Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts
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@johnpoz said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
Reports are prob best on those ones that they came back latter and added spam links in them and the like.. Even ones on old threads, etc. buried deep in the thread that nobody noticed when they were posted, etc.
Yup that ^. Those are the hardest to pick up otherwise.
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For weeks now I see messages like your IP has been banned, but if I reload the page, it still works. I changed from using a privacy-VPN to my ISP but I even get more messages like this. Now I have to ask, what should I do about it. It is a mild annoyance, reloading fixes it. But what else could I do. Should I enable third-party-scripts? Or is it just how it is, after all those spam-posts.
I get it, stopping those must have priority. But I m also curious, why not using a privacy-VPN makes even more (light) problems for me. -
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...
