IP banning resulting in members getting a banned notice

[cobb]

This site has been getting hit by spammers daily, it has slowed down to just 1 or 2 a day lately. If a person is using a service that uses a foreign proxy from counties like China, Russia, etc., or a browser that provides anonymous browsing through a foreign county IP's, this may result in a notice that your IP has been banned. It is not the user name that is banned, a person can still log in, just not through those banned IP address.

[ttousi]

Nobody has been banned by name for months.

There is also an email server ending in dot top which the spammers use. There were upwards of 6 per day. So when they are IDed the entire IP range gets banned. Even getting them from IP's in France, UK and the Bahamas.

Notice we haven't been getting spammed since we started screening then approving new members

[ttousi]

ip ban.jpg (19.79 KB) Viewed 30561 times

notice it's an IP ban..........sometimes its a local rolling IP that was banned in the past

Send me the IP you posted from and I can unban it (hint post from a different IP or have someone else send it to me

[LarryFlew]

Been there when we recently switched our internet provider. TT was quick at correcting the problem and it was very much appreciated. THANKS

[Pat Cannon]

I thought I accidentally said something offensive.

[ttousi]

I thought I accidentally said something offensive.

offensive?......avatar maybe

[Pat Cannon]

When I clicked the Board Administrator link to email for more information, I got this, the next day:

[Ghost]

When I clicked the Board Administrator link to email for more information, I got this, the next day:

At least they didn't give you 127 hours, you'd have had to amputate an appendage.

[ttousi]

I'll look into it....thanks

[mrp]

I'll look into it....thanks

I got a banned notice and send an email to contact@mnguntalk.com a few days ago.

contact@mnguntalk.com isn't working. There's no MX, and 45.55.154.124 isn't listening.

The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 [mnguntalk.com 45.55.154.124: timed out

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