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Re: Server updates

Posted: 05 Jun 2025 10:42
by alexh
I can no longer access the forum from my office. Works on my phone. I now get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

It's been like this for most (all?) of this week. I thought it was the server was down.

Could be a coincidence?

Re: Server updates

Posted: 05 Jun 2025 10:46
by exxos
alexh wrote: 05 Jun 2025 10:42 I can no longer access the forum from my office. Works on my phone. I now get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

It's been like this for most (all?) of this week. I thought it was the server was down.

Could be a coincidence?
I've not changed any of the rules, let me know your IP address and I will check the logs.

You can also use this page to check if your band or not request un-banning

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/IP_CHECK/

Note this isn't automatic and I have to manually review the IP activity before it will unbanned... I had a request from someone in Russia asking to be unbanned a few days ago ... The mind boggles...

Re: Server updates

Posted: 05 Jun 2025 11:37
by alexh
62.254.223.105

It says it's banned

Re: Server updates

Posted: 05 Jun 2025 11:47
by exxos
alexh wrote: 05 Jun 2025 11:37 62.254.223.105

It says it's banned
Should be unbanned now..

There's 24 "errors" from that IP with "PROTOCOL-ICMP destination unreachable port unreachable packet detected" :shrug:

Re: Server updates

Posted: 05 Jun 2025 12:08
by alexh
Works. Thanks

Re: Server updates

Posted: 06 Jun 2025 11:00
by alexh
Banned again?

Re: Server updates

Posted: 06 Jun 2025 11:09
by exxos
alexh wrote: 06 Jun 2025 11:00Banned again?
You would have look look into that error I posted before. It looks like your requesting ports which don't exist AFAIK. So the firewall assuming its a port scanning type of attack as it happens multiple times.

Nothing has changed in that particular rule set for several months.

Re: Server updates

Posted: 06 Jun 2025 15:59
by alexh
Whatever it is, it is outside my control.

Possibly related to "Crowd Strike" or "Symantec" apps installed on work computers which are outside my control.

I guess this is farewell :cry:

Re: Server updates

Posted: 06 Jun 2025 16:01
by exxos
I will dig deeper into it see if I can find out more. Will see if I can enable more logging to see what's going on aswell.

One temp fix may be to not leave the browser open on the forum as the self-refresh may trigger more log hits..

Re: Server updates

Posted: 06 Jun 2025 16:18
by exxos
@alexh I think ive got IPtables logging better..so I need you to visit on your blocked IP to see if your IP gets logged..