Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts
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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.
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@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.
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@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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@Bob-Dig
Somewhere here :
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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.
