Atari-forum access issues. Is anybody else affected?

[don_apple]

I'm not able to access atari-forum.com at the moment (using Safari 18.6 on macOS 13.7.8), always get the following error message:

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Yesterday it was working for a short period of time btw.

[viking272]

I also get the same in Safari, not logged on there for about a month.

[1024MAK]

The maintenance on Atari-Forum last night was security related, the admin responsible for the firewall has not yet been able to carry out any substantial changes (due to personal circumstances).

If you are having problems, it helps if you can provide your browser user agent information and IP4 and IP6 addresses. You can send this by PM to me if you wish. I will then pass the information on to the admin.

Sorry for the problems that people are having.

Mark

[1024MAK]

If you don't know your browser user agent, you can ask Google "how to find browser user agent" and it should tell you. I daresay that other search engines will either be able to tell you or provide a link to a web site that can.

Mark

[Steve]

@1024MAK

My mobiles been blocked for weeks, the user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:152.0) Gecko/152.0 Firefox/152.0

Also on my desktop, it can connect a few times, but after (on average) 5 page changes (ie; going into different forums or checking messages) I simply get 'unable to connect' and then I have to wait around 24 hours for it to work again.

[rubber_jonnie]

These links were what I used to get my user agent and IP info:

https://www.whatismyuseragent.com/

https://www.whatismyip.com/

Since providing these I've mostly been fine apart from the maintenance that was mentioned.

You need to provide the user agent info for all the browsers you use.

[nokturnal]

@1024MAK I'm cut off completely for some long time, sent pm with some additional info.

[1024MAK]

To everyone who has supplied information and details to me either by posting here since 30th June or via PM, thanks for that. I have forwarded the information and details on to the appropriate admin on Atari-Forum.

Unfortunately they have not yet been able to make any changes. Real life issues are taking up their time. So I ask for everyone affected to be patient.

If there are any others that are having problems, the offer still stands, please get in touch via PM.

Mark

[nokturnal]

@1024MAK I can access AF now, thanks!

[don_apple]

@1024MAK Thanks for your offer to help with this.

For me access to atari-forum.com is working again.

It seems that it started working after my internet router got new external IP addresses after the router got rebooted following a firmware update.

So for others who still have problems accessing atari-forum.com, you might want to try to get new external IP addresses assigned to your internet connection.