Hi,
My previous IP address (A.B.C.D mod: IP address removed) somehow got firewalled on forums.freebsd.org. I didn't renew lease for some time but I didn't check forums either. I am 100% sure I didn't abuse anything to cause this.
Then I had to read some documentation on the forums and couldn't access. It seems that firewall cuts off IP address for a long time, since I can't access for over 24 hours.
It takes ton of testing to even figure out that it is result of firewall action on the other side, including using w3m on my Linode server, just to confirm that forums are not down. It certainly doesn't help that https://forums.freebsd.org/misc/contact is hosted on the same domain, being cut off and trying to report about that won't past the firewall causing initial problem.
Just before I used ssh/proxy tunnel to access forums from my server in another country I rebooted ISP modem, which in turn changed my IP address. Fine, it now works. No idea for how long will 109.93.x.x be firewalled but it doesn't seem like good idea.
My point is:
It is very bad user experience to firewall IP address for such a long time. I don't know why it was firewalled but I know I didn't do anything to cause that. User wanting to read anything on the forums and hitting the wall is going to cause user not to return -- almost happened to me. It took over 70 minutes to test and figure everything out, using not so common knowledge level. Somebody less experienced can't even think of solving this.
Question:
Can we please somehow figure out what happened and prevent this from happening to other users? See point above.
My previous IP address (A.B.C.D mod: IP address removed) somehow got firewalled on forums.freebsd.org. I didn't renew lease for some time but I didn't check forums either. I am 100% sure I didn't abuse anything to cause this.
Then I had to read some documentation on the forums and couldn't access. It seems that firewall cuts off IP address for a long time, since I can't access for over 24 hours.
It takes ton of testing to even figure out that it is result of firewall action on the other side, including using w3m on my Linode server, just to confirm that forums are not down. It certainly doesn't help that https://forums.freebsd.org/misc/contact is hosted on the same domain, being cut off and trying to report about that won't past the firewall causing initial problem.
Just before I used ssh/proxy tunnel to access forums from my server in another country I rebooted ISP modem, which in turn changed my IP address. Fine, it now works. No idea for how long will 109.93.x.x be firewalled but it doesn't seem like good idea.
My point is:
It is very bad user experience to firewall IP address for such a long time. I don't know why it was firewalled but I know I didn't do anything to cause that. User wanting to read anything on the forums and hitting the wall is going to cause user not to return -- almost happened to me. It took over 70 minutes to test and figure everything out, using not so common knowledge level. Somebody less experienced can't even think of solving this.
Question:
Can we please somehow figure out what happened and prevent this from happening to other users? See point above.