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Old 16-06-2015, 06:21 AM   #1
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Hi guys, am about to go overseas with work, LA, London this time, have noticed in some places in the hotel I'm in (used to happen in Hong Kong but OK there now) I can't get AFF due to the 'site not liking the IP area or something. Very upsetting, I have to rush out for counselling! Anyway, I think the denial message sez something about writing to you guys for a fix.
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PS. I'm sure there's info on this on the forum but haven't looked.
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Hi guys, am about to go overseas with work, LA, London this time, have noticed in some places in the hotel I'm in (used to happen in Hong Kong but OK there now) I can't get AFF due to the 'site not liking the IP area or something. Very upsetting, I have to rush out for counselling! Anyway, I think the denial message sez something about writing to you guys for a fix.
Any ideas?
PS. I'm sure there's info on this on the forum but haven't looked.
Yep...

Lost track of the countless countries this happened in....

Right pain in the rear end!
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Old 16-06-2015, 08:12 AM   #3
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Yep...

Lost track of the countless countries this happened in....

Right pain in the rear end!
So which is the bigger pain in the rear end.

Wading through endless spam to find anything useful on the site or having to send an email to admin@fordforums.com.au to ask for the particular block to be temporarily removed?

There is a reason that IP ranges are blocked - we don't do it unless the range has actually been used by multiple spammers attempting to gain access to AFF. Currently there are about 13,000 IP addresses or ranges blocked - a few are all the way down to the fourth octal (i.e xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) while about 1/3rd are still at the second (xxx.xxx.*) and a further 1/3rd at the third octal (xxx.xxx.xxx.*).

When requests are received we can usually move from 2nd to 3rd octal to fix the issue.

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Old 16-06-2015, 12:53 PM   #4
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So which is the bigger pain in the rear end.

Wading through endless spam to find anything useful on the site or having to send an email to admin@fordforums.com.au to ask for the particular block to be temporarily removed?

There is a reason that IP ranges are blocked - we don't do it unless the range has actually been used by multiple spammers attempting to gain access to AFF. Currently there are about 13,000 IP addresses or ranges blocked - a few are all the way down to the fourth octal (i.e xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) while about 1/3rd are still at the second (xxx.xxx.*) and a further 1/3rd at the third octal (xxx.xxx.xxx.*).

When requests are received we can usually move from 2nd to 3rd octal to fix the issue.

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OK, thanks Russ, will try it out.

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So which is the bigger pain in the rear end.

Wading through endless spam to find anything useful on the site or having to send an email to admin@fordforums.com.au to ask for the particular block to be temporarily removed?

There is a reason that IP ranges are blocked - we don't do it unless the range has actually been used by multiple spammers attempting to gain access to AFF. Currently there are about 13,000 IP addresses or ranges blocked - a few are all the way down to the fourth octal (i.e xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) while about 1/3rd are still at the second (xxx.xxx.*) and a further 1/3rd at the third octal (xxx.xxx.xxx.*).

When requests are received we can usually move from 2nd to 3rd octal to fix the issue.

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That's all well and good but when I had the issue in Korea I asked a friend to email AFF via the 'contact us' with my details and the issue and got no reply.

Perhaps you can include a 'contact webmaster' on the block page if at all possible?
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That's all well and good but when I had the issue in Korea I asked a friend to email AFF via the 'contact us' with my details and the issue and got no reply.

Perhaps you can include a 'contact webmaster' on the block page if at all possible?
I thought there was?
When it's happened to me in the past, a quick message to admin has always had it fixed quickly

Edit--->maybe it still allows PM and I've used that to contact admin.
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That's all well and good but when I had the issue in Korea I asked a friend to email AFF via the 'contact us' with my details and the issue and got no reply.

Perhaps you can include a 'contact webmaster' on the block page if at all possible?
There is one already. No such requests are ever ignored but it is of no use asking a third party to send the email as using the web form includes the IP address you are using at the time which is the critical piece of information to unblock it.

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There is one already. No such requests are ever ignored but it is of no use asking a third party to send the email as using the web form includes the IP address you are using at the time which is the critical piece of information to unblock it.

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I did also send an email to the suggested address on the above site and got nothing.

The 3rd party was a backup due to the nil response to my email.
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Old 16-06-2015, 09:05 AM   #9
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I had the same problem logging in from the USA but FF Admin fixed it immediately when I notified them
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Depending on what you work's policies are like you can just VPN into work from OS and then browse to AFF.
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Depending on what you work's policies are like you can just VPN into work from OS and then browse to AFF.
I'm in an airplane at work so wont work, however did work in hotel in LA and here in London
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Yeah, id hope if your in the pointy end of the plane you're not surfing the next anyway!
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Had issues in Europe recently, but only on ipad, android phone worked ok but was too small and annoying to read.
I just went Cold Turkey and was happy not to be laying under one for 6 weeks.
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I now live in the UK and often come across this issue. I bet Russ and the other admin team get sick and tired of my requests to unblock an IP address over here.

Once you let them know it is usually sorted within a few hours.

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I used to spend half my life overseas. When this issue happened a quick message to admin and it was sorted within hours usually.

No matter where you are in the world, sometimes you need a FF fix.
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This is the screen you see when your IP address is banned

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That's interesting. Myself and others have got the screen I put up. I have never got that screen.
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That's interesting. Myself and others have got the screen I put up. I have never got that screen.
Like I said, that screen is the dummy index.html page that a non-configured web server has. It would be strange to see it happen from AFF. What you may have found is that you are connected onto a different network and it's redirecting you to some other server that is displaying that page.
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I'm off to Finland and Norway next week. I know I can get AFF there, but I'm not sure about Germany, though once I get there I expect I'll be far too busy to log on anyway.
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No AFF in Tallinn, Estonia. :( Now back in Finland!
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