exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

don_apple wrote: 07 Jul 2026 11:12 It seems that it started working after my internet router got new external IP addresses after the router got rebooted following a firmware update.

Oh dear, I've got a fixed IP. Could it be that IP's got blacklisted on the atari-forum server? I still can't login.

I have a fixed ip but it works with actors Firefox in desktop mode.

I think it is the user agent and not the ip.

It maybe both but it definitely blocks IPs.
I finally got around to testing a VPN and all the browsers that are blocked now work on AF.
When I disconnect from the VPN and use my ISP's outbound IP, I'm blocked.
It could be some DDOS bot is on my ISP ip range, which is why its been blocked but I hope BT ranges can be 'allowed' at some point. Been a few months since I could get to AF.

As I understand it, the filter used by the firewall uses a combination that includes the IP address and the browser user agent.

Mark

The only way I can login now on my pc is by running Firefox (with Desktop Site ON) inside an Android emulator (LDPlayer).

I just tried accessing AF. Index came up fine, I went on "next" page in recent topics and I think on the 3rd one it went down.


I'm not really bothered, just thought I would report the issue.

I've lost access this sunday, I could access site on saturday/sunday night(around 2am).. Sunday morning I was blocked again.

I had a snoop around some other forums earlier. There's a thread on the german forum where people not happy in general either.


https://forum.atari-home.de/index.php/t ... 598.0.html

Yes, it's a bit annoying because there so much info there that's not accessable now. Hope they can sort it out soon.
Anyone has a valid invite link for the Discord server?

I just tried going there. Got in OK and managed to read the first page of a post. When I clicked upon page 2 I got blocked.