"Access denied"

[snooper]

I sometimes receive an access denied message when I try to visit the Lit Forums.

After puttting in some degree of detective work and of network tracing, it seems that certain IP addresses are barred from Literotica.

This seems unfair to those of us who do not have a fixed IP address. I normally access Lit via a dial-up line from home, and my ISP assigns an IP address at login time from a range which they possess. My link then goes through a speed booster sytem which works on proxies, and these again assign an IP address to me so that the outside world sends messages to me via their speed-up proxy.

One, at least, of these proxy IP addresses has been barred from Lit. The normal workaround is to disable the speed-up and connect without their proxy. This usually works, but occasionally I get refused a second time, apparently because one, at least, of my ISP's addresses has been barred.

Does anyone know how to persuade the techies (collectively known as Manu) that barring by IP address is not really very helpful to them when many of the users have variable IP addresses? Or how to persuade them to tell me whether it is I whom they seek to ban?

 

[silverwhisper]

snooper: that's odd. one would think that ISPs would segregate the IP address pools for dial-up vs. broadband customers. how do you identify what IP address you've been assigned?

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[Ezzy]

I thought IP addresses had only been banned when they have been used to attack the site as with "Denial of Service" attacks.

If you have already traced the IP and know which one it is that won't allow access you could ask Manu to open it up, use the contact details on the home page.

Or just check your IP everytime you log on and re log on when you hit the problem IP.

 

[Moleculor]

Proxy services are generally good ideas to IP-ban, because anyone can use them to anonymize their attacks. In addition, I've never heard of any bandwidth-increasing tool that requires the use of proxies to work (though there is that new one out that bumps a dial up modem from 56kb to 256kb that I haven't investigated yet).

Short story is: You're not going to convince LitTechs to unban a proxy, unless they're insanely stupid.

 

[snooper]

... I've never heard of any bandwidth-increasing tool that requires the use of proxies to work ...

I use ONSPEED which bumps up quite a bit. I would have broadband, but unfortunately I live 20 miles form the Capital, so no broadband for me "in the forseeable future" to quote BT.

... how do you identify what IP address you've been assigned? ...

The easiest way is to email oneself and then "show all headers", though I am sure there are more direct techie ways.

 

[londonaberdeen]

IP Address

To get your IP address simply open a command prompt, dos prompt dependng on your operating system.

Type IPCONFIG and press return.
You will get your IP Address there.

BUT this isn't going to clear the problem. I'd say disconnect and reconnect. Checking your IP address has changed before trying again.

 

[snooper]

To get your IP address simply open a command prompt, dos prompt dependng on your operating system.

Type IPCONFIG and press return.
You will get your IP Address there.

True, but not the whole truth.

IPCONFIG tells me what my IP address is when my ISP receives a message for me. This is assigned from a block of IP addresses when I dial in.

The IP address used by the outside world to send messages to me via the proxy is a different address which is also assigned from a different block of addresses when I connect to the Onspeed accelerator programme.

 

[Moleculor]

IPCONFIG won't tell you a damn thing if you use a router (or a proxy). www.whatsmyip.com used to do it. Someone sold the URL though. No clue if it does it now. Try googling for ip address identifiers?

Whatever the case, you're probably not going to get Literotica to unban a proxy. If anything, bringing it up will probably get the whole proxy range banned, if it isn't already.