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[JezC]

Found it too...but when I try to check if it is blocked I'm getting http error 500.

So I can view the forum via WiFi but not check if I'm blocked...

I'll give up for now and catch up with the new posts tonight (at home).

[exxos]

Found it too...but when I try to check if it is blocked I'm getting http error 500.

ill talk a look, nobody reported a problem with the page, was working the other day :roll:

ah its a out of memory error because the IP ban list is soooooooo large now.. ill figure something out..

EDIT:

Try now @JezC

With the help of GPT5 , I have got rid of the slower update of the IP ban list, and now is done in real-time

[exxos]

We had a outage today around 6-7pm. Not sure what happened exactly, but seems to have been a fault on the host side this time.. they rebooted something and things started working again.. Thankfully not caused by me this time 8-)

[JezC]

Still couldn't get on via my phone at home earlier - but probably during that outage...

Will try on mobile data tomorrow at work as a final check & let you know how that goes..

If I've not posted anything by 10am tomorrow then I'd take that to mean it's still not working!

[exxos]

@JezC if you know your mobile IP just put it in the IP check page and it will tell you if that IP is blocked or not. If it is, you can click the request removal button. Unbanning is automated if you put your forum username in..

Though logged in users should be whitelisted anyway. Unless your IP keeps changing?

BTW I'm not at home tomorrow so won't be able to review the logs to see why the banned happened. But I should get a email saying what jail you hit.

[JezC]

@JezC if you know your mobile IP just put it in the IP check page and it will tell you if that IP is blocked or not. If it is, you can click the request removal button. Unbanning is automated if you put your forum username in..

Though logged in users should be whitelisted anyway. Unless your IP keeps changing?

BTW I'm not at home tomorrow so won't be able to review the logs to see why the banned happened. But I should get a email saying what jail you hit.

I'll try logging in on my phone in a few minutes & see if it works (and check for the IP being banned) & let you know...unless I fall asleep first!

:lol: :roll: :oops:

Edit : phone not working wih mobile data as a starting point..

Edit 2 : apparently the IP address is not banned...but it still doesn't work.

I'll PM you the IP address from my phone now in case that helps?

[JezC]

Still blocked on mobile network access (but ok via guest WiFi at work.

I'll try the links from the PM later @exxos

[exxos]

Still blocked on mobile network access (but ok via guest WiFi at work.

The IP you gave isn't blocked though. Not by any rules at least anyway. Either the IP is wrong or possibly UFW is dropping the connection for some reason.

[JezC]

Can't access the forum via my phone on mobile network data but all is ok using the company WiFi still.
Something strange is afoot...and has only become an issue in the last few days...

[exxos]

Being busy working on firewall related problems the past couple of days..

Found that some uses were being mistakenly banned for port scanning attacks. Now adjust it to only detect more severe attacks.

The un-ban script wasn't always working correctly so that is now fixed.. Hopefully.

The whitelist script may not have been working correctly for some users' widely admin and moderators only. Also another bug where users were not automatically added to the white list or automatically removed from all the ban lists.

Logged in users are white listed and even if they are mistakenly banned, they should automatically be unbanned every hour by the script, but it is difficult to tell if it is working or not. So far it only seems to unban legitimate bots. But I now have better logging on that system now as well.

There's also been some weird problem where users have been banned, not by any rules or detections, which is rather puzzling. Run out of time for this week to look into it, but...

There was some IP function which was supposed to make life easier in Linux which seemed to just go bat shit crazy for no reason. I think it may have basically added a bunch of "random" IPs to the firewall for no reason at all. I stopped using that now.. A Python script now deals with a lot of things which Grok wrote.

Incidentally I don't think ChatGPT is doing very well on the coding front these days. I was trying to figure out why some users were not being added to the whitelists and it was just basically stuck in a loop telling me the same things then saying something was wrong with something it actually wrote which it corrected and then basically went round in circles doing the same thing. Basically it was stuck thinking the IP set functions were not working. I gave up and asked grok the same problem too. Grok found the issue that my scripts wasn't checking admins and moderators ips in the first place. So I'm going to use Grok for the timebeing.