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grub
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Joined: 27/11/2007
Location: Australia
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Posted: 08:15pm 31 Oct 2010

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For most of last week and this weekend I could not access this forum. I received a message page stating that my IP was banned. This morning I could access it again (hence this topic).
Any particular reason why I was black balled? Was it something I said or did?

Gizmo

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Posted: 10:10pm 31 Oct 2010

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Hi Grub

Nah, that was my fault.

There have been more than the usual amount of hacking attempts on the site recently, about 200 per day are logged, mostly from China, Korea and east Europe. Whenever I see a hack attempt, I block the IP range ( using a 225.225.225.0 subnet for the tech savy ). Last week was a bad week, mostly from China, in anger I blocked the entire 115.*.*.* range, thinking it was reserved for Asia.

However on Saturday I got a email from a forum member asking why he was blocked. He was in New Zealand! I looked further into is, and it looks like NZ also share the 115 ip range

So I unblocked it. It was my fault.

Should be right now.

Glenn

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RossW
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Joined: 25/02/2006
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Posted: 01:36am 01 Nov 2010

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Gizmo said about 200 per day are logged, mostly from China, Korea and east Europe.

Wanna swap? I see that in an hour some days!

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Whenever I see a hack attempt, I block the IP range ( using a 225.225.225.0 subnet for the tech savy ).

I hope you mean 255.255.255.0, although most of us refer to that just as /24

Gizmo

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Posted: 02:12am 01 Nov 2010

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Ahh yeah, your right, typo, 255.255.255.0, or FF.FF.FF.00

Glenn

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
JAQ

shawn

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Joined: 30/03/2010
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Posted: 09:53am 01 Nov 2010

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Hi grub i was the kiwi mentioned above had to email anouther member for glens email.
Hate to think how much time it takes to run a site like this

And year i had to talk to the wife for over a week!! it seems this 4m is great at sending her out of the room so was much missed by me

grub
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Posted: 08:48pm 01 Nov 2010

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And there I was thinking that it was the way I parted my hair.
I figured that something happened but I did not have an email address to post to with a query. If it had kept up I would have tried a different computer on Monday but I was allowed back in so that did not happen.
Hats off to Gizmo for not blowing his stack more often under such irritating conditions.

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