My home IP adressed has been BANNED ?????

[kkperth]

Could someone please tell me why my home IP address has been banned from this forum - meaning I cannot get my daily dose of woodworking info, projects and advice?

I have sent numerous messages to the 'Administrator' asking to be un-banned or at least to get the reason for the banning. To date I have had no response whihc is very frustrating.

Has this happened to anyone else and can I please be reinstated - I am having withdrawal symptoms?

Kirk

[Calm]

how do you know it has been banned?

[DJ’s Timber]

Looking into to it now

[kkperth]

When I go to the website on my home computer it somes up with a message "This IP Address has been banned..." No mater what I select on the page it keeps coming up with this mesage. I am currently logging on from a different computer - thus different IP address at the moment and access to the forum.

Kirk

[madcraft]

Could someone please tell me why my home IP address has been banned from this forum - meaning I cannot get my daily dose of woodworking info, projects and advice?

I have sent numerous messages to the 'Administrator' asking to be un-banned or at least to get the reason for the banning. To date I have had no response whihc is very frustrating.

Has this happened to anyone else and can I please be reinstated - I am having withdrawal symptoms?

Kirk

Hi Kirk

If your on dialup or even some ADSL your ip is assigned to you (Unless you asked for a fixed IP ) when your modem starts up so if you restart your modem you should get a new IP ( This is why IP Fillters aren't used anymore )

Hope that Helps
Glenn

[DavidG]

Make sure your ADSL router has not been set to ban you from the web site. ?? SWMBO ??

[kkperth]

Glenn

We have satellite broadband so I do turn off the modem from time to time to reset it and switch servers when it goes slow (we apparently have a rotating choice of 3 servers), I will try this again later tonight.

David G - never thought about SWMBO - I will investigate!!!

Hopefully something works - thanks for the advice - I will let you know how I go.

Kirk

[Wood Butcher]

Kirk,

Without knowing what your IP address is I can't do anything. There is only several thousand IP's banned so it needs to be narrowed down a bit.

Rowan - Wood Butcher
Administrator
Woodworking Australia's
WOODWORK FORUMS

[Hobbyhorse]

I have just spent the last week banned from the forum too and after two Emails to the Administrator I was reinstated. I still have no idea why I should have been banned.

Confused I am.

Rhys

[madcraft]

never thought about SWMBO - I will investigate!!!

Hi Guys

Probably get cried down for this but what is "SWMBO"


Glenn

[DJ’s Timber]

Hi Guys

Probably get cried down for this but what is "SWMBO"


Glenn

She Who Must Be Obeyed

[madcraft]

She Who Must Be Obeyed

Thanks DJ

that funny I call her the Cook (when she can't hear me )

Glenn

[bsrlee]

Another problem with some ISP's is that they don't block spammers from using their company as a base, so the ISP gets blacklisted. I know of one Australian ISP who advertised quite heavily & refuses to have anything to do with complaints about the spammers using their service.

One site a friend manages gets over 3-4 THOUSAND spams from them EVERY DAY, and nearly all contain mal-ware such as virii & trojans and they are coming from the ISP rather than a 'spoof' address as the messages have been backtracked.

Wonder why some ISP's get blacklisted?

[RETIRED]

Gooday Kirk. I have been through all the ISP addresses that have been used by you and none are banned so at the moment at a bit of a loss as to what is happening.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Kirk, you haven't switched to a proxy recently have you?