crashar Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Last week I noticed that the Wiki and the TNG home page were inaccessible for about a day. I did contact Darrin with my IP address but he replied that he saw no evidence I was blocked. Shortly after that I was able to access the Wiki again. It was inaccessible for about a 24 hour period. This morning I noticed I cannot access it again. That got me thinking. Sometime last week I ran Robin Richmond's mod manager compare on my TNG13 installation as part of the process to get ready to upgrade my main site to TNG 14. Last evening I ran it again on my local site. This mod does a comparison of my installed mods to the mod pages on the Wiki to create a report highlighting mods which have updates available. In doing so it obviously must make at least one query to the wiki for each mod installed (there are 38 of them in my case). This will cause a series of very quick access requests to the WIKI and may appear to be some kind of inappropriate access attempt to the WIKI server. So my question. Are there some limits being placed on the Wiki which will temporarily lock out an IP for a time period? Is it possible I am being locked out for a few hours or a day because I ran the report? Harold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ton van lil Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 I cannot access wiki either since this morning. https://tng.lythgoes.net/ is not accessible too. Greetings Ton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashar Posted January 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Interesting. Maybe it is just a communication issue then. I thought maybe I was detecting a pattern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Roy Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 I am able to access the TNG Wiki with no problem. You will need to send your IP address to Darrin and have him ask Simply Hosting why you cannot access the TNG Wiki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Severijns Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Gents, I can access all the pages. If the problem persists you can send Darrin an email with your ip-address included so he can have your IP address white-listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Severijns Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 To late for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashar Posted January 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Perhaps some other technical geek can verify this for me. I just turned off the wifi on my phone. So now it is connecting through its LTE service. I assume that it would not be using the same IP address as the wifi connection. When I try to browse to the wiki on my phone using the LTE service, I get the same message "...can't reach this page". So now I am beginning to think this a different issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ton van lil Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Yes with other rondom ip i get in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashar Posted January 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 So I checked my IP with What Is My IP? Shows Your Public IP Address - IPv4 - IPv6. I tried different IPs using a VPN on my desktop as well as on LTE. I also tried different browsers. In all cases the wiki is refusing a connection. So I think something else is happening here. Will wait for a few hours to see if it is restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klooster Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Same problem here, Tried different IP with my VPN. I asked Darrin to check the IP if they are blocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yegib Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Hello Same problem as far as I am concerned from France.IP address seems to be blocked, I am loaded passing via a VPN to access the forum and the wiki François Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edglimited Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Wiki and the Forum work ok, from Australia. No problems at this end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janusz Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 At my place for several days the wiki does not work. I am currently in Poland. In 3 days I will try in Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katryne Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 No problem from France. I do not use any VPN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashar Posted January 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Oddly enough. Due to an unrelated matter I needed to reboot my router last evening. The reboot caused a new IP address to be assigned. As soon as the reboot was completed, just for giggles, I decided to try to access the WIKI, and to my amazement my access was back. I had assumed that my testing using LTE or a VPN indicated a general access issue. Perhaps it was coincidental, but if the reboot solved my access issue, then that leaves me totally confused (yet happy 😕😀). Harold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Roy Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 For everyone's info, even though I support the TNG Wiki I do not have an account on Simply Hosting who has been very aggressive with their mod_security rules as of late. 9 minutes ago, crashar said: The reboot caused a new IP address to be assigned. As soon as the reboot was completed, just for giggles, I decided to try to access the WIKI, and to my amazement my access was back. Until a better mechanism is put in place, if your IP addess is static, you will need to send it to Darrin so he can open a problem with Simply Hosting to get the access rules cleaned up Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klooster Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Access to TNG-Wiki works fine through my VPN, but not without. I asked Darrin to check my iP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ton van lil Posted January 18, 2023 Report Share Posted January 18, 2023 Mine works fine trhough VPN as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klooster Posted January 19, 2023 Report Share Posted January 19, 2023 Darrin checked my iP adresses, they were not blocked so he sent a support ticket to his hosting company. I do not know if/or what his hosting company did, but this morning I had no problems with accessing the Wiki, with or without my VPN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janusz Posted January 19, 2023 Report Share Posted January 19, 2023 Now everything is ok and the wiki is working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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